Example sentences of "[noun] just [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a timebomb just waiting to be ignited , ’ said a source . |
| 3 | McInally 's agent just happens to be Denis Roache . |
| 4 | I think Alone In the Dark just happens to be one of those games . |
| 5 | Is that the problem , or is that the success , that the Monkees just appeal to everyone ? |
| 6 | Earthworms are the main item in a badger 's diet and cow grazing pastures just happen to be a good source of earthworms . |
| 7 | Ellen just went to sleep . |
| 8 | I remember at Oslo just going to my marks when from the crowd came a shout : ‘ Go on , Linford ! |
| 9 | This does not mean that the mind just responds to information in the way in which a thermostat , for instance , transduces information about temperature and performs switching operations . |
| 10 | But it is a ready-made blueprint for inequality just waiting to be copied by other reactionary governments . |
| 11 | Very often , these mutually unintelligible and exclusive ethnic cultures just happen to be the same as the groups which common sense tells us are ‘ races ’ . |
| 12 | It was de Kruif who in 1919 , as a young PhD just returned to the University of Michigan after two years at war , decided on a career that would make more money for himself and his future wife than what he called ‘ microbe hunting ’ . |
| 13 | The mountains hang everywhere , big vertical peaks just waiting to be climbed . |
| 14 | Well she were there for two hours just trying to . |
| 15 | The feeling of cool linen sheets against her heated skin just added to the almost unbearable sexual tension she was feeling . |
| 16 | The cost of admission is figured at $150,000 just to get to the point of manufacturing . |
| 17 | Well it 's , the shirt just seems to be too fine for it . |
| 18 | ‘ You can not wake up an old lady just to listen to your insane and morbid fantasies . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ This lady just wants to be in touch , ’ says Lorraine . |
| 20 | The transactions just referred to of the executors , his assignees , in relation to the lease bind him , in my judgment , in a question with the plaintiff as if they had been carried out by himself . |
| 21 | Boys seem to make an effort only if they are going into a situation where they know they might meet someone they fancy , whereas lots of girls I know will put on make-up just to go to the local shop ! |
| 22 | You see sometimes Boy , like all of us , sometimes Boy just wanted to be taken care of without having done anything to deserve it . |
| 23 | That pretty girl just had to be Gaynor Summer 's sister , and , sure enough , that was where she went . |
| 24 | Situation : This is not really a role play , because both A and B just have to be themselves and tell the truth . |
| 25 | ‘ A sport just has to be a bit flexible . ’ |
| 26 | I 've got a ceiling just waiting to be painted . ’ |
| 27 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 28 | ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque . |
| 29 | Water itself is , of course , a combined source of oxygen just waiting to be liberated via the breakdown of water vapour through photosynthesis . |
| 30 | For help just refer to Yellow Pages under ‘ Debt collectors ’ , ‘ Tracing ’ or ‘ Detectives ’ . |