Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] just [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes you come across patients you feel have been coached on what to say , or who just claim to be residents . |
| 2 | They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time . |
| 3 | She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around . |
| 4 | He ended his hour-long presentation with the words , ‘ We are on our way toward making the division one of the best goddamned outfits in overseas operations , and I just want to be given the chance to prove that the plan which I have outlined to you today is the right one for the British operation , for Europe and for the Corporation . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a life-long ambition of mine to be a chauffeur and I just want to be given a chance . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ CHRIST ! ’ said Lucy hurtling to her feet , stalking the floor like Mildred Pierce , ‘ all your talent and you just want to be a bloody lover ! |
| 7 | and you just happen to be taller and heavier than James |
| 8 | I thought , ‘ Here is this man who just begs to be loved , and who just wants to be a handsome , gorgeous leading man , ’ but who really was not . |
| 9 | like , she 's coloured right , but she 's a bit portly and she just smells to be quite honest ! |
| 10 | She know that and she just seems to be like a vicious circle all the time , I mean she does n't , I mean just getting deeper , deeper into debt . |
| 11 | We were able to help him … we can see their house from our bedroom and we just happened to be looking out of the window at the time , do n't you know . ’ |
| 12 | I was received as a thief , a well-mannered rapist , bucketless car-washer , double-glazing runner , not to mention corrupt informant that some of them tiles is loose , Ma 'm , and we just happen to be in the area with a long ladder so why not call it eighty quid ? |
| 13 | And they just happen to be two of the best tracks . |
| 14 | And they just happen to be attached to a saint ! |
| 15 | Richard Dreyfuss was booked one week and on the night of the show a confusion over dates and times led his film company to arrange a business call that linked up Los Angeles , London , Australia and New York and he just had to be there . |
| 16 | I would n't say they were lucky against Oldham , but everything ran for them today , the underside of the crossbar and the post saved Charlton on a couple of occasions and as Simpson said I think ‘ Bolder on a couple of occasions really knew nothing about the saves he 'd made , they were point blank , and he just happened to be there . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've had time to think it well and truly through in what has been the longest three quarters of an hour of my life between phone call and you getting here — and it just has to be you . |
| 18 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |
| 19 | ‘ But I just tried to be patient , and one day everything just started to be okay again . |
| 20 | Now what essentially , what you 're doing , is that you 're writing an essay in very , very condensed form , so it 's just , I mean you still , still must have the same recipe in there when you write a short answer , right , but you just have to be very , very brief , so you know , para paragraph on definition , you know , paragraph of examples , right , erm , paragraph on some sort of explanation or erm , how it 's , how it 's measured erm , has it been a contentious issue erm , what are the problems with this er , with this concept erm , right , you 've got to get those sort of things in there , like you would in an essay , if you were asked to write an essay on reciprocal dumping you 'd , you 'd have all those things in there , right , but you only need to write a sentence , a sentence about them . |
| 21 | They will doubtless say we are lucky , but we just happen to be house-owners with a steady income , like millions of others . |
| 22 | Yeah although the tape 's on I 'll still say I 'll still say I mean there are people within the company as within any company I 'm sure who you when you get to know their technical ability or lack thereof you think well how have they managed to get where they have but they just seem to be able they seem to have this ability to be able to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 23 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 24 | I know that 's very boring of me , but it just happens to be true , my dear . |
| 25 | But it just happened to be her best friend 's birthday and she was invited to a special birthday tea and to stay overnight . ’ |