Example sentences of "just [verb] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought , ‘ Here is this man who just begs to be loved , and who just wants to be a handsome , gorgeous leading man , ’ but who really was not . |
| 2 | erm and ended up dealing with it but that 's not to say she should n't deal with it erm she just got to be trained how to deal with it |
| 3 | I 'll drop in on the Colonel , and tell him his pretty young secretary is just dying to be bummed ! ’ |
| 4 | One productive starting point is to break the illusion that writing is a " gestation " process of waiting for inspiration until the essay forms itself , fully-fledged , in your mind and just needs to be written down . |
| 5 | It just needs to be applied . |
| 6 | Whose responsibility or whose , whose supposed to be that is irrelevant , it just needs to be cleared up . |
| 7 | The light is inside everyone , it just needs to be released . |
| 8 | It just has to be accepted … . |
| 9 | This is one of those low-budget efforts that just has to be experienced . |
| 10 | Or is it something which just has to be considered as part of the planning process ? |
| 11 | that we 're gon na have to start er defending , you know , because we er er , we , we have got a wealth of experience and information it just has to be shared . |
| 12 | A spiral corkscrew perm that just has to be washed and left for a full-bodied look . |
| 13 | You 're not cold you just want to be cuddled . |
| 14 | He ended his hour-long presentation with the words , ‘ We are on our way toward making the division one of the best goddamned outfits in overseas operations , and I just want to be given the chance to prove that the plan which I have outlined to you today is the right one for the British operation , for Europe and for the Corporation . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a life-long ambition of mine to be a chauffeur and I just want to be given a chance . ’ |
| 16 | They just want to be seen calling at the house . ’ |
| 17 | Deep down , I suppose I just want to be wanted . |
| 18 | I just want to be treated honestly and know if I am part of Chelsea 's plans . ’ |
| 19 | You just want to be left alone to die . |
| 20 | Sometimes I just want to be left alone to do it my way , whether it 's right or wrong . |
| 21 | We just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 22 | I just want to be left in peace , I need time … ’ |
| 23 | I just want to be left alone ! ’ |
| 24 | I just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 25 | Sometimes you just want to be left alone , so I understand the violent reactions some celebrities have when they 're infringed upon . |
| 26 | Some people just want to be told what to eat . |
| 27 | During the 1970s several teams attempted to refute this claim , arguing that the connection is a figment of Arp 's imagination , that it is an optical illusion caused by the overlap of isophotes ( light contours ) from the two objects , or that it is an illusion caused by a star or galaxy which just happens to be located between the two objects . |
| 28 | The user prepares a document using Berthold fonts and sends it to a bureau for output on an imagesetter which just happens to be running Hell-Xenotron 's Bridgit . |
| 29 | Chemistry in turn , even ‘ organic chemistry ’ , was considerably more advanced than the life-sciences , which just seemed to be taking off into an era of exciting progress . |
| 30 | Yes , something certainly was over , but something else had just began to be thought about . |