Example sentences of "us just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most of us just hope this will be over as quickly as possible and that the Americans go home , ’ a diplomat said . |
| 2 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |
| 3 | Which leaves us just where we started , he thought drearily as he turned and went . |
| 4 | ‘ There are a group of us just down the platform , come and join us . ’ |
| 5 | Two-thirds of my male friends have got married , and the rest of us just sit around in the pub all weekend . |
| 6 | There is no chart telling us just how many hours we should be sleeping ; indeed it varies greatly from person to person . |
| 7 | It 's something most of us just dream about . |
| 8 | The general shortage of comforts and of everything which kept us just above the lowest level of life was sufficiently great to make individuals cling to what they had with something like fanaticism . |
| 9 | Before considering how we might do the job mathematically , let us just draw in a line by eye , to go through the centre of the data points . |
| 10 | He left us just before Christmas 1982 , in a sudden transfer to West Bromwich Albion , after appearing in all seventeen League matches of 1982–83 . |
| 11 | Bert Howe was a consistent , reliable and determined full-back , who signed for us just after Christmas 1958 and first appeared for the Palace in the dark days of the 4th Division , but who proceeded to help us secure a place in Division Two . |
| 12 | I put it in inverted commas , because many of us just do different kinds of non-waged work at the weekends , or work at providing leisure facilities . |
| 13 | With superstars Kathleen Battle and Itzhak Perlman lined up to give us just over an hour of Bach arias , one has to accept that almost whatever one says , artists of this calibre act upon collectors like the proverbial honeypot to the bee . |
| 14 | No more than that , for we were all on renewable annual contracts and Clive never tired of reminding us just how many eager applicants there had been the last time he 'd had to ‘ let someone go ’ . |
| 15 | When it comes to the detail of everyday life most of us just muddle through somehow , but Dennis was a Platonist . |
| 16 | Another attempt to depart saw us just make it around the airport pattern . |
| 17 | For instance , they gave us just two power lines per side on a huge concert stage , and just one spotlight , and that was all the lights they gave us , and they gave us half the PA . |
| 18 | Jason says : ‘ Gary 's got more money than the rest of us because he gets publishing royalties for the songs he 's written , but the rest of us just get a modest wage . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Too much pressure is being put on us just because of the tradition of the Welsh No 10 jersey , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed him he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title . |
| 21 | ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 22 | A rapid look at The Times newspaper for this Monday in April might give us just the slightest inkling of the minutiae of English life on a most ordinary of ordinary days : Dickens was completing David Copperfield ; Bass 's India Pale Ale could be had for 33s. per 18-gallon cask ; Hampshire Breakfast Bacon would cost you 7½d. by the half side , while Captain Reid 's ‘ Walls End ’ coal was 19s. a ton . |
| 23 | ‘ Let us just say that we expect this to be your only half-witted jape for the entire term . |
| 24 | ‘ If it could come for us just a little way away I would n't mind , ’ Gurder quavered . |
| 25 | ‘ Tell us just a little bit more about what she does , ’ Matilda said . |
| 26 | ‘ Some of us just a little . |
| 27 | Some of us found enough to interest us just sitting in front of the Upland Goose Hotel watching the birds in the harbour . |
| 28 | The fact that for 30 years social scientists have struggled to produce a theory of interaction tells us just how complex it is . |
| 29 | ‘ Are acts of God designed to show us just how mortal we really are ? ’ |
| 30 | Meanwhile , so as not to break the thread of our story , let us just remark that any ‘ purpose ’ involved is internal to the agent or system and not that of a hidden hand . |