Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] just [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
2 | On the telly they just talk to people and find things out . |
3 | The user prepares a document using Berthold fonts and sends it to a bureau for output on an imagesetter which just happens to be running Hell-Xenotron 's Bridgit . |
4 | Among the extra work which required a special piece of plant to be brought onto the site for one week and then returned 200 miles , there must be some extra work which just happens to be within the scope of a piece of plant which is already on site which would otherwise have been idle during the week in question . |
5 | Endless ads have been Green or organic , from the guy who rips his plans up to wreck the countryside and earns himself a beer , to the couple in the deodorant ad who just happen to be frolicking naked in the forest with camouflage make-up . |
6 | And time out : Another blow for the girl who just wants to be one of the boys . |
7 | But it 's not , normally , a shop I just go to . |
8 | Only time would tell now whether it would go without mishap I just had to be patient . |
9 | ‘ For the first two days we just go to bed . |
10 | And some of them are good fun pop in their own right they just happen to be done in a foreign language and with different cultural influences . |
11 | We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse . |
12 | Later I mention this encounter to an old friend who just happens to be a former service supervisor for the phone company . |
13 | ‘ But I just tried to be patient , and one day everything just started to be okay again . |
14 | And Robert , who was by now learning the basic rule that if anybody said anything interesting it was probably Muhammad , would ask if by any chance it just happened to be a saying of the Prophet , to which the headmaster would reply , his eyes shining , ‘ That 's it ! |
15 | Finally , Bill could n't stand it any longer and one night he just clung to Marjorie and cried . |
16 | It was about elderly people I just wanted to be properly cared for . |
17 | Erm Mr Davis referred to N Y one erm in his er statement there , in the interests of saving paper I just wanted to er to state that it is included as appendix one |
18 | THEY say every picture tells a story … and these pictures show a woman who just wants to be alone . |
19 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
20 | Hincmar of Rheims wrote to give orders to a neighbouring count who just happened to be his kinsman : it is not hard to see how an archbishop might refer to the local counts collectively as " his " , or the draftsman of a capitulary write in general terms of " archbishops and their counts " . |
21 | ‘ When I 'm with Tommy I just try to be like him , ’ Iain had told the police . |
22 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
23 | I thought , ‘ Here is this man who just begs to be loved , and who just wants to be a handsome , gorgeous leading man , ’ but who really was not . |
24 | In this case it just happens to be true . ’ |
25 | I mean we 're just giving a little bit of temporary relief in a situation which just seems to be getting worse and worse . |
26 | ‘ You do get the believers and the buffs , the little sects who just stick to their beliefs and wo n't listen to anything else . |
27 | Erm quite a lot you just have to be honest with people and tell I mean we 've got It 's unfortunate we can threaten people if you like , it 's the wrong word to use . |
28 | that we 're gon na have to start er defending , you know , because we er er , we , we have got a wealth of experience and information it just has to be shared . |
29 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
30 | ‘ The whole thing has got out of control , I 'm not so much bored as miserable , ’ confided Diana to a sympathetic neighbour who just happened to be a journalist . |