Example sentences of "we just [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
2 | ‘ It 's mine and we just saw the dog walking off with it , ’ the golfer replied . |
3 | And if our drinking water looked cloudy , we just let the tap run longer . |
4 | In the end we just let the audience in or we 'd have been there all day . ’ |
5 | Do we just pay the bill at the end of the day ? |
6 | This example does not offer anything new ( we just got the configuration of an infinitely large parallel-plate capacitor ) , but we can see that the method works . |
7 | We just got the flight orientation wrong . |
8 | and er that was one of Tom 's extras because I could very well remember , erm we had very little erm time off at Christmas and there was one year that erm , we just had the Christmas Day and erm erm Tom had this meeting on the Christmas Eve to decide who should erm attend the next week 's tractor course and erm , everybody was sort of feeling in the , sort of Christmas spirit and |
9 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
10 | So if we just shove the money and P O number , and our number under your door ? |
11 | We just passed the revenue , the capital , the revenue then goes on the base budget , is called the revenue consequence of capital expenditure and all the fire officers ask for is enough to build a fire station and the cost of running it is automatically going onto your bill . |
12 | We just dropped the subject of Billy and started it up ! |
13 | Jenny said : ‘ We just turned the corner . |
14 | We shall see more formally why this is the case when we discuss bonds in Chapter 6 , but it is a relationship which is easy to grasp intuitively if we just consider the position of a holder of existing bills . |
15 | We have shown we can do it we just need the money . |
16 | Can we just get the prayer out and start by saying the prayer together please . |
17 | We just needed the goal and a nice win behind us and the results will show a marked improvement . |
18 | We just watched the protest from our bedroom windows . ’ |
19 | ‘ We just lost the roof , ’ said he . |
20 | Not that I 'm suggesting that we should be soft when children do wrong but that we just reverse the ratio of our attention and energy from the negative to the positive . |
21 | It 's a tiny vineyard — we just drink the wine ourselves , but we follow the old festivals . |
22 | We took Fujichrome , shot it at 5000 ASA and developed it at about 6400 ASA , we just pushed the shit out of it and we had no idea of what would happen . ’ |
23 | For two charges of opposite sign eqn ( 2.36 ) reduces to eqn ( 2.31 ) ; we just have the dipole potential previously derived . |
24 | We just want the truth again … . |
25 | We do n't want to buy it , we just want the catalogue |
26 | No we just grabbed the dowel |
27 | Then we come onto the , the real sort of erm bread-and-butter forecasting world , and erm as you rightly say , most people are , think that we just do the radio and television forecasting , erm perhaps read the newspapers and see the forecasts there , but there 's much more to it than that . |
28 | and then we just do the disco afterwards |
29 | We just did the Radio One 25th Anniversary concert in Birmingham , and we recorded that , so we 're putting out a live medley of hits from it . |
30 | ‘ We just changed the name [ to Rees Pollock ] and carried on , ’ he says . |