Example sentences of "just [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | just where I have fallen , |
| 2 | ‘ This is n't just where I live , it 's where I work . |
| 3 | But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’ |
| 4 | Actually , if it happened just once I would n't go to anyone . ’ |
| 5 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 6 | Just once I waste my breath in armadillo country . |
| 7 | i wonder … what was I trying to prove ? just that I was not a sheep , waiting to be slaughtered , at their command . |
| 8 | It 's just that I could never remember it afterwards , and anyway everyone seemed to pronounce it differently . |
| 9 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 10 | I have this urge to snow you my childhood stamp collection , just that I do n't have one . |
| 11 | ‘ God forbid ! ’ said Dionne , ‘ just that I 'm living with a delinquent at the moment and it makes me feel mature . |
| 12 | I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him . |
| 13 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 14 | It is just that I want to be free . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's just that I might as well have stayed in the sitting-room , that 's all . ’ |
| 16 | It 's just that I 've got this feeling about it all . |
| 17 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 18 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
| 19 | It 's not that I 'm particularly unhappy with the shape of my body or with my image , it 's just that I worry all the time about what people think about me , what impression they are getting . |
| 20 | I was not supposed to clean there , it 's just that I love reading and sometimes I feel starved . |
| 21 | It 's just that I need , we all need , your co-operation if any kind of arrangement is to work out . ’ |
| 22 | It is just that I do n't know what the man will do . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's just that I thought there might be something wrong … ’ |
| 24 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 25 | It was just that I dislike going off half-cocked , talking too much about a project before I can see where it 's leading . ’ |
| 26 | It 's just that I have to look after both of them ’ |
| 27 | I 'm sorry I was so tiresomely upset just now , it 's just that I want to protect you . ’ |
| 28 | It 's just that I am so evil and perverted and encrusted with slime that it 's rather difficult for me to remember the fact . ’ |
| 29 | It was not just that I was alone in the middle of the enemy . |
| 30 | It 's just that I can see myself listening to the Brahms Quartets rather more often . |