Example sentences of "did just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peasants caught up in the Tambov and other revolts did just this , although they remained politically ineffective for lack of large-scale organization . |
| 2 | He found that he did just better than his predecessor and was pleased . |
| 3 | A fitter and I went up and did just that . |
| 4 | Losey 's films during the 1950s and into the 1960s did just what Anderson seemed to be asking British films to do , posing questions about contemporary society in strong , engaging narratives . |
| 5 | The big chemical companies did just that ( after first rashly diversifying ) in the 1980s by shifting emphasis from commodity chemicals to pharmaceuticals and biotechnology . |
| 6 | Presumably he intended it to fire up his own team , but predictably it did just that to the opposition . |
| 7 | Procter 's anger at this annoyed Lloyd so much that he told his captain he was going to hit him over the pavilion ; and he did just that — next ball . |
| 8 | But England only had to bat steadily and they were home , and Gooch , Broad , Gatting and Lamb did just that . |
| 9 | Looking through her work you ca n't help but be impressed by the quality and her attention to detail — and I did just wonder if I was in the presence of someone who is going to be hailed the greatest canine painter of her era . |
| 10 | Many leaders did just that : Hugh Price Hughes could declare in writing that the National council ‘ represents the view of a majority of the Christian people of England ’ . |
| 11 | On seven occasions last year , the batsmen made first-innings totals of less than 300 but did just enough for the seamers to win the matches . |
| 12 | This was particularly appropriate because the ‘ Flickers ’ did just that ; they moved , ran , fell off bridges , drove trains through parlours , rode wild horses , attacked poor wee Indians , flew aeroplanes , and rammed just about every aspect of everything that normal people never did , on to a square screen in the local box of delights known as ‘ The Picters ’ , ‘ The Flicks ’ , or if you came from Clarkston , High Burnside , Shawlands or Jordanhill , ‘ The Cineemaaa ’ … |
| 13 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 14 | However , a few months ago , a friend showed me his latest acquisition , the all-singing-all-dancing computer which did just about everything except dive for you . |
| 15 | The German artillery did just the same thing , as the following account from the British side shows : |
| 16 | The British tabloids , always to be relied on to turn a mild comment into a raging scandal , did just that , hilariously suggesting that The Smiths , as always , led by manic vegetarian Morrissey , were inciting the nation 's kids to go shoplifting . |
| 17 | He did just that . |
| 18 | The CABx of Camborne in Cornwall and Bridgewater in Somerset did just that in 1986 . |
| 19 | Learn a lesson from a lad I know , who did just about everything wrong . |
| 20 | ( Clearly , it is high time in this essay that we did just that ! ) |
| 21 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 22 | I did just what I had to do , and never realised that it was my best . |
| 23 | Arthur did just that , and the man walked out on to the platform without waiting for his change . |
| 24 | Sometimes , too , you have to scratch ear to make sure you really did just hear what you thought you had , for although spotting-the-influence occasionally seems to tempt the listener , there is some highly individual writing here , and the prodigality of the invention is startling : the music simply poured out of her , sometimes with a batty , Ancient-Mariner intensity that buttonholes the listener willy-nilly , not stopping to form its garrulousness into coherent shapes . |
| 25 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 26 | About 62 per cent did just that last year compared with 42 per cent the previous year . |
| 27 | ‘ I did just want to raise the question of that boy … ‘ |
| 28 | Corcoran did just that . |
| 29 | ( Look back at the Cliff Gallup solos we covered in June and July and you 'll notice he did just that , too . ) |
| 30 | ‘ So it was do-it-yourself time , ’ says bill , ‘ and , with the help of my father , we did just that . |