Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] just to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I have n't worked for my degree just to be handed a cosy role in the family firm !
2 If your joints are good , no cramping is necessary but I did put a couple of webbing cramps on my chair just to be on the safe side .
3 Ajayi smiled and shook her head ; she put her hand just to one side of the glittering projected line of squares and seemed to fumble with something invisible in the air .
4 On the other hand we got into a discussion yesterday as to whether the medical profession is n't devoting too much of its energy just to keeping people alive who really ought to be dead .
5 But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance .
6 Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right .
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