Example sentences of "be just something " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The articles are just something to do , ’ he explained .
2 Love used to be just something she heard about in sove songs or followed in picstrips .
3 that 's right , that 's , that , I think it was so , I mean that she was so it must be just something to do with gardens as well , cos she was a gardener was n't she ? ,
4 Sometimes I try to think about the concepts behind the immersion and about being spiritually cleansed , and sometimes mikva is just something that has to be done on time , and the spiritual significance is almost forgotten in the ritual of the act .
5 Tenderness is just something that women like because it gives them the upper hand .
6 I am sure if The Box is just something you stick the kids down to watch while you get on with something else , harm can be done .
7 Walking , it seems , is just something that we do , like breathing .
8 I 'm afraid this is just something you have to get used to , like a nurse in a hospital — it goes with the job .
9 When an idiom is just something that has the form of , has a certain apparent grammatical form but actually occurs just as a single unit of a fixed meaning , so it has no genuine semantic structure from which you can determine its meaning , for example kick the bucket means die and you do n't get that in the meaning of kick the bucket .
10 Is that something that other folk on Stronsay know or is just something you
11 Well it 's against all training that we receive , there is no need for it it is just something that we would not do .
12 Joan for what it 's worth erm and this is just something you might want to think about a mobile is worth its weight in gold .
13 And what I 'm giving is just something nice in the spirit of Christmas but it has n't broken my bank or my back .
14 Mm and what I 'm giving is just something nice in the spirit of Christmas , but it has n't broken my bank or my back
15 I know Perhaps it is just something that
16 ‘ We do n't think of this as a sport ; it 's just something that has to be done . ’
17 For me , there 's just something more powerful in Man 's ultimate punishments — whether they 're on a humanist level or a more mystical level — than in his ultimate rewards .
18 It 's just something to say .
19 It would be nice to see him married like the others , but it 's just something that I 've got to accept .
20 Do n't feel defeated : it 's just something new you needed to learn .
21 I do not claim to be gifted — it 's just something you either possess or you do n't .
22 Well , that 's obviously a bit of a ridiculous generalisation , but there 's just something about his playing that was unexplainable .
23 I suppose it 's just something that I 've learned to live with .
24 ‘ It 's just something we started doing , ’ says Edgar .
25 ‘ Yes , but that 's just something that happened in the outside world .
26 ‘ It 's just something that happens between two people .
27 ‘ I bathe topless in the South of France , I bathe topless in my garden — it 's just something that I do , ’ she says .
28 There 's just something about him .
29 There 's just something special about it .
30 " No , it 's just something to do .
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