Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] just [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can not wake up an old lady just to listen to your insane and morbid fantasies . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ This lady just wants to be in touch , ’ says Lorraine . |
| 3 | Being born and bred in Ludlow , my favourite team just has to be … |
| 4 | The workplace , or place of study , exerts its own pressures on you and the fear of failure in those first few weeks just adds to your sense of isolation . |
| 5 | Some people just want to be told what to eat . |
| 6 | I tried a pink old lady with the future of the universe mapped on her face with linear symbols just waiting to be decoded by anyone who had the wisdom and the patience to want to do so . |
| 7 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid Moira just went to pieces . |
| 9 | This call just had to be an act of purest derision , a flaunting of how well this enemy had foretold Jaq 's actions — or even was psychically alert to Jaq 's whereabouts . |
| 10 | They burnt on occasion a couple of Popes , or perhaps the same Pope twice ; it was n't anti-Catholicism , teenage daughters just objected to something he had said . |
| 11 | Very often , these mutually unintelligible and exclusive ethnic cultures just happen to be the same as the groups which common sense tells us are ‘ races ’ . |
| 12 | That pretty girl just had to be Gaynor Summer 's sister , and , sure enough , that was where she went . |
| 13 | Refrigeration was in its infancy , so that perishable goods just had to be sold which meant that prices were gradually reduced in the hour or so before closing time . |
| 14 | The entire village is a children 's paradise , a stimulating world just waiting to be discovered . |
| 15 | ‘ It has been an awful long time just getting to this stage , but it will be worth it if we can succeed . ’ |
| 16 | That game just happens to be the Tennent 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final against Avoca . |
| 17 | Pilkington disliked the impression conveyed that these friendly personalities just happened to be recommending products as though they were disinterested parties . |
| 18 | The mountains hang everywhere , big vertical peaks just waiting to be climbed . |
| 19 | An almost totally unspoilt island just off the coast of southern Ibiza whose lazy sun-drenched calm just waits to be savoured . |
| 20 | Heavily wooded hills climbed high above the railway line , dotted with small villages just beginning to be bathed in the warm light of the rising sun . |
| 21 | Moira is convinced that ‘ at this stage there was no conscious effort to recreate the past in the styles — one thing just led to another — but there was in terms of the prints ; with old reference books proving far and away the best place to find ideas . ’ |
| 22 | Well she were there for two hours just trying to . |
| 23 | The feeling of cool linen sheets against her heated skin just added to the almost unbearable sexual tension she was feeling . |
| 24 | It was de Kruif who in 1919 , as a young PhD just returned to the University of Michigan after two years at war , decided on a career that would make more money for himself and his future wife than what he called ‘ microbe hunting ’ . |
| 25 | Nestling off the east coast of Thailand , the island offers 247 square kilometres of forested hills , deserted coves and wide , sandy beaches just waiting to be enjoyed . |
| 26 | You remind me of a beautiful ripe peach just waiting to be picked but when you 're opened up — surprise , surprise ! |
| 27 | There 's obviously been a misunderstanding there , a lack of communication or whatever , but whereas some departments have got to grips with the issue , unfortunately police wor finance working party just stuck to the traditional way , rather reminiscent of Mr 's old budget working party days , which does n't get to grips with the real needs and the real costs . |
| 28 | When they 're doing that others will be collating the information and hopefully er , the television cameras , B B C have expressed an interest in coming down and so have the newspapers to actually do erm some sort of documentary on that , and put a display up in the school and also down at the Royal Quays just linked to us . |
| 29 | Welcome to Northampton — a town full of hidden treasures just waiting to be discovered . |
| 30 | Local elections just tend to be national reflect the national concerns , issues or reflects the unpopularity of the government pa of the governing party or whatever , yeah . |