Example sentences of "but it just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have loved to have spent more time out there where the action is , but it just was n't practical . |
| 2 | I see it happen but wait , hoping that as usual she will jump out from it , but it just gets worse and she slows almost to a stop . |
| 3 | Marie strokes the back of my head , but it just makes it worse . |
| 4 | ‘ I would love to have seen 400,000 kids coming along to see Kylie on this tour , but it just is not possible , ’ said Waterman . |
| 5 | We are sorry that she wo n't be seen by more but it just has not been possible . |
| 6 | I know that 's very boring of me , but it just happens to be true , my dear . |
| 7 | He joked to reporters : ‘ He hit me with a fist but it just bounced off . ’ |
| 8 | But it just does n't operate here . |
| 9 | But it just may be that now , when we 've got rid of so many wrong ideas , now , at last , is the moment when we might be able to frame — an answer . ’ |
| 10 | So in war one may see dead bodies all around , smell the cordite and hear the shells , but it just wo n't happen to me . |
| 11 | But it just so happens that the Alu family is particularly well equipped to spread by this route . |
| 12 | But it just fell into me as I stood there with her . |
| 13 | The truss rod cover I do n't like particularly ; I ca n't say exactly why , but it just looks alien to the rest of the headstock and does n't fit too well on this example , either . |
| 14 | It 's not really stereo ; it 's the same signal coming through , but it just broadens the sound . |
| 15 | ‘ Believe me , ’ says Keith , ‘ if we could plug into a box and get all these sounds , we 'd be doing it , but it just does n't work that way . |
| 16 | It 's the typically cool thing , but it just seemed like a road to nowhere . |
| 17 | I tried to start a blues band , but it just did not work . |
| 18 | ‘ But it just goes to show , ’ Ruth said , ‘ that they were right when they said emigrants should n't wait to leave until they were too far gone in poverty , but should go while they still have enough to provision themselves . ’ |
| 19 | I 've seen him outside of football a couple of times — but it just shows there are no friends in the game . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ On another day we might have had four or five tries in the second half , but it just was n't to be , ’ said London coach Tony Jorden . |
| 21 | For many people there is an aura of mystery about dealing on the money markets but it just involves picking up a telephone , ringing two or three numbers , asking the price of something ( the interest or discount rate ) , and buying from the cheapest source . |
| 22 | Nick Thompson , a 28-year-old mechanic of Morpeth , said : ‘ The idea was quite good but it just did n't come off . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We have been told it will help us all in the long run , but it just means we will all be worse off — unless of course you are on the throne . ’ |
| 24 | BUT it just never happened . |
| 25 | Beasant said : ‘ I thought I had it covered but it just crept through my finger-tips . ’ |
| 26 | But it just got me into a lot of fights , that 's all . |
| 27 | IT SCORES , BUT IT JUST IS N'T CRICKET |
| 28 | IT SCORES , BUT IT JUST IS N'T CRICKET |
| 29 | There 's another item of news , which erm , er Ron only got on the sixteenth August and it 's about the pre-congress pensioner 's march and rally , now the congress is held in Glasgow , so I think we were n't going to that one anyway , but it just giving details of erm the arrangements for the pensioner 's march which we usually have , we usually attend if it 's in the South anywhere , but that 's just for information . |
| 30 | I do n't know what he was looking for , some guilt , some shame , some scandal , I do n't know — but it just is n't there , I suppose . |