Example sentences of "[verb] just [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house . |
| 2 | fit Just get out of my way . |
| 3 | I think it looks just looks just just a mess now . |
| 4 | Q : Have you ever considered just hanging up the business ? |
| 5 | All the dance snobs just walked off , and everybody else just went mad ! |
| 6 | I imagined they were old and slow reptiles , too far gone to chase a sprightly private detective around their pit , content just to chew placidly on a hunk of dead cow . |
| 7 | Younger by four years than his go-getting elder brother , Ryan was basically easygoing , with no driving ambitions , content just to get by . |
| 8 | they , they do n't know just walk around in the warehouse , they are |
| 9 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 10 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 11 | Sure if the weekend sure she would , she , she loves just coming down and would wash the dishes and dry them but Richard wo n't let her do it . |
| 12 | Think of the mother whose child has just fallen over and grazed his knee — what does she do ? |
| 13 | YOUR computer has just broken down . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell you what , ’ she said , ‘ I think Barbs has just run away . ’ |
| 15 | After all this is the woman whose husband has just run off with Felicity Kendal . |
| 16 | The other replay tonight is a little bit closer to home at Peterborough to be precise , Peterborough against Blackpool , that game has just kicked off , no goals in that one at the moment . |
| 17 | On top of all that Prince Charles , heir to the throne and the man destined to become the Church 's supreme governor , has just split up with his wife and divorce looks likely . |
| 18 | ‘ The only thing that can be said is that somebody has just snuffed out a very special person who was going to achieve an incredible amount in life . |
| 19 | And erm I 've found out in , in our area in South Bank , the local hardware shop has just shut down . |
| 20 | Well , he has just flown about . |
| 21 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 22 | But thanks to some detective work by a helpful contact in Fiji , Alf traced his friends and has just flown out to see them . |
| 23 | She said , " Mary , a girl has just turned up here , she 's desperate ; she 's in Shaftwood Hotel , you know |
| 24 | He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’ |
| 25 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 26 | ‘ I think the car battery has just gone flat , ’ said Tuppe . |
| 27 | There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains . |
| 28 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
| 29 | My first book was an experiment to see if I could write and it has just gone on from there . ’ |
| 30 | Exactly it 's all wasted , what you have put in has just gone then . |