Example sentences of "just [verb] to be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And time out : Another blow for the girl who just wants to be one of the boys . |
| 2 | ‘ She just wants to be alone with her boys to try to forget the separation traumas . |
| 3 | I mean most women just want to be good at something , they 've got good-at minds , and they mean deftness and a flair and good taste and what-not . |
| 4 | I think it is sad if you just want to be popular for the sake of it . |
| 5 | Yeah I just want to be clear on wh |
| 6 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 7 | I think Alone In the Dark just happens to be one of those games . |
| 8 | And they just happen to be two of the best tracks . |
| 9 | The riff at the beginning of This Charming Man has just got to be one of the best guitar riffs ever ! |
| 10 | ‘ They must n't forget there 's a recession going on and we 've just got to be realistic about money . ’ |
| 11 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 12 | The first piece of advice that 's necessary is that you should n't just try to be fashionable by choosing juicy speeches that catch your eye without knowing the whole play and having a working idea of how to perform the speech . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll just have to be firm with her she says . |
| 14 | You 'll just have to be content with the JB instead . |
| 15 | So I said well you will just have to be content with me because you 'll because my husband has no time . |
| 16 | In Leeds , local councillors have been sheepish about releasing plans to local people for what might just prove to be one of the most inspired and humane post-war city centre redevelopments masterminded by the architects Terry Farrell and Rob Krier for the Dutch developer MAB . |
| 17 | One just had to be manly about it . |
| 18 | Sometimes I think I 'd just love to be alone with a nice book to read and a carol service on the wireless ! |
| 19 | She just wanted to be free of the burden of her own special powers . |
| 20 | Erm quite a lot you just have to be honest with people and tell I mean we 've got It 's unfortunate we can threaten people if you like , it 's the wrong word to use . |
| 21 | Yeah , no I think you just need to be frank with him and you know say you 're happy about the finger , fine , but just , you know , |