Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] just [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It would n't enter his head that I might not just kill Vecchi out of hand .
2 And dad goes , I 'm I think I might only just have orange juice !
3 I 'd rather just have Ambrosia really .
4 " I 'd better just have £1,000 worth initially .
5 I would never just dump chemicals in a hedge . ’
6 If I 'm going down to the pub with my mates , I will probably just wear jeans but , again , I 'll wear a nice shirt and smart shoes .
7 I can only just remember Bucks Fizz .
8 She could n't just leave Steve in the lurch after all they had done to get the business together .
9 But from her two-room concrete refugee shack , she could now just see Palestine .
10 You could n't just use repeats and codas because he does n't really use them . ’
11 Y equals log X squared you ca n't just picture log X.
12 You ca n't just do things like that , on a whim . ’
13 ‘ Instead of negotiating a child will look at confrontation — but in real life you ca n't just zap people . ’
14 assume that if you give them a population that owned seventy eight percent of the land and find out fifty percent of the land , then you , you know , you ca n't just give land , everyone 's not just gon na have land , you have to increase production to make everyone better off .
15 So obviously if er if Mississippi wants some federal money for a project they 're not gon na get it unless there are civil rights provisions built into the , into the project that is , you know , you ca n't just give dole out to white people and refuse it to black people erm that there has to be equal opportunities and so on .
16 If you care about changing women 's lives you 've got to consider that Clare , you ca n't just throw Mrs Ramsay out — ’
17 You ca n't just pull ideas out of the air .
18 You ca n't just accept love and affection .
19 I mean , you ca n't just hammer households , and leave them , I mean , even , even , even like er ju ju the judiciary , the courts , they 've all got televisions in their pl I mean surely , and that 's Crown property , by the way .
20 You ca n't just let Henry be ill .
21 The company says you ca n't just sell technology alone to commercial accounts and its Fortune 500 and government customers have lots of PCs and Macs and a whole lot of character terminals .
22 You ca n't just use people like this though .
23 You ca n't just put things in the sky !
24 Well you ca n't just put numbers down can you ?
25 We should not just trust people to get on with the task of caring for vulnerable children .
26 well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time
27 We tried to identify distant hills , but in the dense heat haze that now hung about us , we could only just see Whernside and Penyghent .
28 We do not intend to set up an alternative formal system ( uninterpreted in itself ) to act as the interpretation for our syntax , and we shall not just specify patterns of co-occurring word classes on the supposition that causal factors are described by exhibiting the phenomena they govern ( or , worse , that the two are the same ) ; this mistake , which has been widely made , reverses the logical priorities — rather as if one were to answer an enquiry about the underlying geological structure of a region by offering aerial photographs of the terrain .
29 ‘ But Robyn , we ca n't just leave things … ’
30 Now , stumbling through the close packed trees in the patchy moonlight , Louise panted , ‘ Jim … what are we going to do ? … we ca n't just leave Brett back there with that monster . ’
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