Example sentences of "just [conj] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 2 | I was n't saying Kerslake was crap , just that I would swap him for Dixon , Parker , Nilsson or Rob Jones . |
| 3 | He said and says nothing , just that I 'll find out some day but by then it 'll be too late . |
| 4 | It 's just that I can see myself listening to the Brahms Quartets rather more often . |
| 5 | Not because I have n't had a good run , just that I 'd like the run to continue . |
| 6 | It 's just that I 'd like to be doing more outside work . |
| 7 | It 's just that I must talk this through . |
| 8 | ‘ No , you 're supposed to abandon Masquerade just so I can earn a few thousand dollars . ’ |
| 9 | I 've assembled his biography brick by brick , just so I can have the pleasure of taking it apart . |
| 10 | Perhaps I should remove some of this wet clothing , just so I can see the extent of your injuries . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , no , that 's just so I can see the band better . ’ |
| 12 | She really believed I would put up with anything she threw at me just so I could possess her . |
| 13 | I had to stop myself telling her that I had another party to go to on Christmas evening — just so I could stay home after everyone had left and stuff my face with leftovers . |
| 14 | ‘ We went to one beforehand just so I could see what it was like and what you did . |
| 15 | She 'd sat on my lap in a friendly way , true , but that was just so I could get a better fix on her rug . |
| 16 | It was so enjoyable that at the headwall I took a line up the steepest part , just so I could play about hanging from the holds . |
| 17 | I had this brilliant idea to blend into the scenery just so I could keep an eye on you . |
| 18 | Oh it 's not it 's just and I 'll walk down and er I will bring him some biscuits back |
| 19 | I mean I 've even though about if I if I tell you this and you think that 's it 's going to put you you just even if you pass it on to somebody what I 'm telling you pass it on , but just and I 'll try and get the dental treatment where I can get the dental treatment . |
| 20 | I 'm just if I can understand |
| 21 | Erm , just if I could say about the , there 's something next week also about the ambulance . |
| 22 | The second reason just if I could point erm we only learnt this morning of the landscape design erm where we understood that savings were being made by the four members of staff organisation . |
| 23 | They covered everything they to do that but they just if I 'd have just read that without knowing what had happened you know I |
| 24 | Just because I may have been a little short-tempered of late — ’ |
| 25 | In time I learnt to tell at a glance , from the decorations he wore , how often a man had killed , just as I might tell from his campaign medals where a British soldier had served . |
| 26 | ‘ I run the kitchen just as I would run it in a hotel or restaurant , ’ he says . |
| 27 | I lean against the window of the bus and watch the raindrops spatter down , just as I must have done when I was a kid . |
| 28 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 29 | The concept is an enormous one for twelve-year-olds to grasp with any sense of reality , for many children of that age would regard it as fun if their family had to go away to new lands — just as I can recall at that age receiving the news of the outbreak of the Second World War with great joy ! |
| 30 | Just as I can rise above my baser instincts , so this is possible with the dog . |