Example sentences of "[vb base] just [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they do , I mean just play a game , it 's just a ga it 's a it 's a game , like sort of Simon says , try and catch them out in things , you 'll say right , now you 've got to point at a window , say , and then you have to point at , and you can get them all doing it , you |
| 2 | But there are all sorts of reasons why we do n't get that news , one guy said well if we wanted to do it I know if we wanted to make the news that , according to the level of human suffering we 'd start off with Ethiopia then we 'd have the Kurdish problem and you know just made a living of disaster areas around the world , he said we might of finished up with a light hearted discussion on the poll tax , you know as the , as the light , the lightener at the end of the news if you like , and our , what news we receive here depends on our perception of the world , but mainly it 's the other way round our perception of the world is , is what , you know what it , or rather the news that we get actually manufactures our perception of the world . |
| 3 | Moving offices and such at work , in fact we ve just had a drink to ‘ celebrate ’ so please excuse any slurred words and the like … |
| 4 | You let everything go for weeks and weeks and obviously find just getting a meal tiring enough and you know I do n't want you to do anything that 's too much for you . |
| 5 | The other thing might be do just do a questionnaire asking people about their attitudes to accents and dialects and |
| 6 | Charles was all welcoming smiles , ‘ You 've just missed a board meeting , old man . |
| 7 | He recalls that in 1981 , when he ‘ crossed over ’ to become the first , and so far only , sports writer ever to win the ‘ Journalist of the Year ’ Award , Colin Hart , a sports columnist with the Sun , approached him and said ‘ Congratulations Hughie , you 've just struck a blow for the Toy Department ! ’ |
| 8 | You 've just gone a lot quieter |
| 9 | Well , you 've just said a word , it costs three hundred pounds ! |
| 10 | I 've just seen a tape of the BBC 's The Gospels , produced by Jack Emery , which is being shown every day during Easter week . |
| 11 | But now I 've just done a refill . |
| 12 | You 've just done a TV series and book about the history of climbing . |
| 13 | We 've just done a fortnight in the States promoting this region erm to the agents of the erm people who , you know , really book holidays , and one of the things that emerged more than ever was this comradeship , you know , we are together in this erm and what a great country you 've got over there . |
| 14 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |
| 15 | Erm and then we 've just done a letter to them with the new prices . |
| 16 | I 've just done a show a touring show , for the Arts Council which opened recently in Kendel having been in Cambridge , Swansea and Liverpool . |
| 17 | The first show we ever did was opening for Living Colour , and we 've just done a mini-tour with Adrian Belew 's band . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I 've just done a week at Battersea Arts Centre with this blues band called The Dolphins , who I play with quite regularly now . |
| 19 | A bit sluggish on the motorways ; the M40 , the M4 especially at the Thames Valley interchange with the M25 , there are some delays there , it 's making heavy traffic eastbound on the M4 , also we 've just heard an accident on the clockwise carriageway of the M25 at the M4 interchange and there are delays both ways , clockwise and anti-clockwise . |
| 20 | The question begs , you have to say , How come when you 've just retarmacked a road That 's right , electricity board , gas , erm cable T V company ? |
| 21 | I 've just swallowed a bluebottle ! |
| 22 | I I 've just received a fax of a letter sent to the leader of Liverpool City Council , coun er councillor Harry Rimmer by the right honourable member for Sutton Coldfield , in which he invites him to join an organisation called team two thousand er and as part of this invitation he 's invited to attend functions and briefings at Westminster , er at which cabinet m er ministers ministers e cabinet members ministers members of parliament , will be present . |
| 23 | At the headquarters of Pelham Puppets in Cheltenham they 've just received an order to make 10,000 models of Lady Penelope and friends . |
| 24 | FEW people outside Skinningrove have heard of the Tom Leonard Mining Museum yet they 've just received an SOS from a remote Bulgarian monastery asking for food parcels . |
| 25 | Hang on hang on you 've just written a quarter you said four twelfths . |
| 26 | Now , if you can be reasonably precise , erm careful , about what the procedure to be followed is , you 've just written a program . |
| 27 | I 've just sent a cable to the club : list of delegates expected for the next week 's visit — does that sound okay ? |
| 28 | I 've just met a pig . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've just made a pot of tea . ’ |
| 30 | So I 've just made a note , the next C S N T , I 'll in the report back from the staff consultative committee , there 's two or three things we need |