Example sentences of "you just " in BNC.

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1 I 'd rather you just
2 As an auditionee I knew I worked best if I attempted something outrageous so I prepared Lord Foppington from The Relapse and you just have to let go with his Lordship otherwise there 's no point to it .
3 Look , you just hang on here a minute , I want to have a word with Katrina about something . ’
4 This table shows you just how effective simple measures can be .
5 You just ask the doctor of your choice whether you can be taken onto their list .
6 Like home , like the home you dream of , where people accept you and love you just the way you are .
7 Did you just fall out of love , or what ? ’
8 ‘ You … you just talk as if there was nothing between us except this goddam exhibition , ’ she said dully .
9 ‘ CHRIST ! ’ said Lucy hurtling to her feet , stalking the floor like Mildred Pierce , ‘ all your talent and you just want to be a bloody lover !
10 ‘ Maybe you just need to give her time . ’
11 ‘ Ca n't you just do the work you 're paid for ? ’
12 ‘ Why do n't you just talk straight- ’ Madam Mosely sucks a mint with vigour .
13 That summit was partially hidden , however , for when you get to the top of the final slope there 's a level stretch that takes you just out of view .
14 The illuminated versions can be handy if sited near the keyhole — they will probably give you just enough light to stop you fumbling in the dark with your key .
15 In the Possessed notebooks Dostoevsky tries a snatch of dialogue in which Stavrogin is asked ‘ Why do n't you just simply live ? ’ ; and he replies ‘ Ah , that 's the hardest thing of all ’ .
16 You just wait and see .
17 In reality you just invent a tale , as if you were sitting round a fire in a cave . ’
18 Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib .
19 But as a competitor , you do not think about politics and you just hope everyone will be there . ’
20 ‘ Unless your country has been divided too , you just can not imagine what we feel like , ’ says a middle-aged secretary .
21 In fact , in interviews , a quick reference to the home town frequently serves them as well as a rhetorical trick : by declaring their provinciality , they can remind you just how surprised they are to be attracting so much attention all of a sudden .
22 ‘ Buying Manchester United would be like buying a Van Gogh — you just can not put a value on it . ’
23 Easton 's section police tour the district in their vehicles awaiting such calls , although this meander does have another purpose in that ‘ You just never know what you could come across : maybe someone in a car that might containammunition , perhaps a stolen car , or perhaps your wife in a car with a best mate ’ ( FN 7/3/87 , p. 3 ) .
24 An elderly sergeant once remarked on his experience of attending a cot death for the first time , ‘ You just have to say to yourself , the next time I will be better equipped to cope with this type of situation …
25 But you just could n't book everyone you saw infringing some minor law or other .
26 You just need to look at the disaster situation on the Pennine Way .
27 I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell .
28 On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy
29 You just do n't care enough . ’
30 ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’
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