Example sentences of "that he just " in BNC.

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1 When most people bring their catch of a lifetime to him , they do n't realise that he just wants the skin , not the flesh .
2 He stood aside for McLeish , then took himself off , observing unnecessarily that he just had a wee bit paperwork to finish up .
3 It may be that he just does n't feel very well , and decided to stay in bed .
4 Melanie was worried that this would upset Stan , but he was already giving clear signs that he just wanted to avoid conflict .
5 The call had been for Hank , and had been from one of his classmates , who said that he just wanted to inquire how Hank was .
6 Family commitments now meant that he just did the occasional Cowes Week and Club Race .
7 Now his club 's tighthead , he has gone out of this way to improve his scrummaging technique with specialist advice from among others , his boss , Sandy Carmichael , the 50-times capped Scottish and Lions tighthead Iain Milne ( ‘ immensely helpful ’ ) and Jim Telfer ( ‘ he is just the kind of coach I need because I can be a bit lazy and the fact that he just keeps at you all the time was very good for me ’ ) .
8 That he just likes their company , really .
9 The cause of much of Thom 's misery , it transpires , was the feeling — familiar to many victims of Fatal Attraction Syndrome — that he just was n't good enough for the person concerned .
10 Grant and I think he did n't deliberately sink the yacht but that he just , through ignorance , kind of accidentally blew a hole through the bottom . ’
11 But was Picasso fond of the different women he was with or was it that he just liked them physically , and he was able to use them in his work ?
12 Aung San overcame his plea that he just wanted to go on writing and brought him to Rangoon .
13 She told me that he just had time to wrap a small gift of appreciation .
14 ‘ Or are you still so naïve as to believe that he just wanted a comforting kiss and a cuddle ? ’
15 They may think the experimenter wants to know himself and not realise that he just wants to know whether the child knows the answer .
16 Brown knew that the universe was his own imagination , and that he just had to send thoughts and entire galaxies and peoples would no longer exist .
17 I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard .
18 Whenever a West Ham player somehow broke free in the Leeds half he seemed so overawed that he just Geoff Thomased the ball .
19 I accept completely what the honourable member for erm Truro Truro actually said in his speech just er that he just made , absolutely right that the cultural and the geographical identity of people matters so far as the European parliament is concerned and in respect of our responsibility , the responsibility of this house to citizens of Gibraltar .
20 He says that he just walks right into the middle of a match .
21 there was no sort of , you know , about handshake or anything daft like that he just , he just would n't let go of my hand so I had to pull off really .
22 To begin with Charlie was not quite sure what was happening , but he liked the sensation so much that he just continued to hold on to her , and after a time even began to press his tongue against hers .
23 Yeah well the thing about Simon that 's excellent is that he just accepts people for what they are and he does n't judge people
24 But not only that he just do n't like having them anyway .
25 that he just received them like , about half an hour before Mike rang up , so he said I 've got to get me secretary to type them out and then we , I 'll send them to you and we 've got to sign 'em , then what happens from there ?
26 Yeah that he just , he asked Gary this morning if he was looking for a job
27 Thing is , my old man 's had them for so long that he just , he he puts them in a in a cup of this like sterile solution every night .
28 I could n't believe that he just about had the audacity to phone this guy up .
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