Example sentences of "he [be] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bill says the samples of water you sent him were just that , water . ’ |
| 2 | He is an accomplice , in the sense that everyone who joins another in decoding a linguistic sign co-operates with them in the establishment of its meaning ; but we can see that the sign Iago offers him is just the opposite of what Othello wants to believe , or has believed till now . |
| 3 | I owe them more than money can pay , Gina , and finding Svend and trying to talk some sense into him is just one small thing I can do . |
| 4 | Because very often you , a father can be very keen on gardening and getting the children to help him is just the last thing . |
| 5 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 6 | Immobile , the shape of him was just discernible in the darkness of the bedroom . |
| 7 | The twitch broadened fractionally into what might have been a smile on anyone else but on him was just a rearrangement of composed features . |
| 8 | Nithard pointed out that what Lothar had done to him was just what he planned to do to Charles . |
| 9 | They do nt even create his goals — he s just got that luck/knack of being in the right place for deflections etc . |
| 10 | The memory was staggeringly clear , as though he had just heard those other bells , as though he were just surging forward in his final spurt , kicking for home . |
| 11 | He were just messing about ! |
| 12 | He were just made me laugh come on then I 'll just come out with you , in the garden . |
| 13 | ‘ Aye — he is just twenty-one . |
| 14 | He is just surprised . |
| 15 | It could be said as brusquely of Iago that he is just a wrecker . |
| 16 | Sometimes he is just a secondary figure floating in the novel 's bloodstream , as at the fête where he has got roped in with a few other young men to be a marshal and make sure everything goes smoothly . |
| 17 | He is just one of our 600 voluntary Welfare Officers in this country and overseas who help us with our work . |
| 18 | In the city he is just another casual labourer working at the lowest level of urban employment . |
| 19 | Now he is just flattered by the label — ‘ the British Marvin Hagler ’ — which Bob Arum , the American promoter investing that $2 million , has tagged on him ; previously he would have been angry that he himself had not invented it . |
| 20 | Now he is just flattered by the label — ‘ the British Marvin Hagler ’ — which Bob Arum , the American promoter investing that $2 million , has tagged on him ; previously he would have been angry that he himself had not invented it . |
| 21 | ‘ I have watched videos of Benredjeb and he will be a tough opponent , but he is just my height and should be perfect for me , ’ he said after sparring with Arguelles at the Belfast gym of his manager , Barney Eastwood . |
| 22 | Suppose for a moment that Mr Gorbachev himself does not know what he has in mind ; assume that he is just a moderniser with no clear idea where modernising leads . |
| 23 | Sometimes he is just plain offensive . |
| 24 | He is just the kind of stable , bright young man we think can articulate our viewpoint and reach a mass of people . ’ |
| 25 | He is just 50 and apparently at the limits of his political ambition . |
| 26 | There is no doubt he will be a dominant figure and in the view of many he is just what is needed to revive a moribund department . |
| 27 | Against this interpretation lies the evidence that we can and do say , when appropriate , things like ‘ Of course he consented to the operation , but that does not entitle you to perform it since he is just a child ’ ( or he did not know how dangerous it is ) . |
| 28 | But now he has to face all those people in the great big world to whom he is just another person , starting quite often with his own brothers and sisters . |
| 29 | He is just a confused young man going through a postgraduate crisis ; a rebel without claws . |
| 30 | His lawyer says he is just ‘ a curious computer nerd ’ . |