Example sentences of "just [conj] [pers pn] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll arrive to find they 've stuck the mikes just where you do n't want them . |
| 2 | She burst into tears and said she had not meant to criticize me ; it was just that we did n't love her , nobody did , and she had only her ‘ things ’ to care for now . |
| 3 | It 's just that we did n't know that I did n't hear what she said . |
| 4 | It 's just that we do rather more sophisticated versions sometimes of very similar things which are done at school , but they might be done more precisely , simply in a rather more sophisticated way . |
| 5 | Perhaps it 's just that we do n't have enough of those long , thin granite cracks . |
| 6 | It 's just that we do n't do it grammatically . |
| 7 | It 's just that we do n't want anything to ruffle the Khedive 's hair just when the negotiations are approaching a delicate stage . ’ |
| 8 | They might have been done , it 's just that we do n't know . |
| 9 | I do n't Albert do n't mind going for her cigs , but it 's just that we do n't get up early in the morning , you know , and if me mum 's ringing at eight o'clock in the morning , 'cos she got no cigs . |
| 10 | Yeah , we can always get hold of them it 's just that we do n't carry them , we 're a small branch you see |
| 11 | Well that 's debatable I think they 've got plenty of people up here to do it it 's just that they do n't want to do it . |
| 12 | It is n't just that she does n't have the stomach to eat anything because of her morbid dread of flying ; more that she ca n't accept touching anything anti-Green . |
| 13 | It was n't her reaction that I was wary of , it 's just that she does n't even know how she made her children so how was she going to understand what I was trying to tell her ! |
| 14 | So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people . |
| 15 | It was just that she did n't lie , to herself or others , about what they were . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just that she did n't have any life . ’ |
| 17 | It 's just that she did n't succeed . |
| 18 | It was no longer just that she did not like birds or could not bear to touch them — she could have coped with that , as it would not have intruded greatly on her everyday life . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't say he could n't have , just that he did n't . |
| 20 | I 'm not saying that it is necessarily trivialising to talk to interviewees about their clothes , it 's just that you do n't find the male presenters on Rock Steady talking to Phil Collins about his suits ! |
| 21 | " It 's just that you do n't look much more than seventeen yourself . " |
| 22 | It 's just that you do n't know how we do it here , Captain Owen . |
| 23 | It 's just that I du n no I mean |
| 24 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 25 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 26 | I have this urge to snow you my childhood stamp collection , just that I do n't have one . |
| 27 | It is just that I do n't know what the man will do . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't like wasting my energy worrying about things I can do nothing about , ’ Sally said matter-of-factly . |
| 29 | ‘ No , it 's just that I do n't like casual affairs . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't like leaving places — or people , ’ Ruth said . |