Example sentences of "just [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ This is n't just where I live , it 's where I work . |
2 | just where I have fallen , |
3 | But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’ |
4 | Just once I waste my breath in armadillo country . |
5 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
6 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
7 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
8 | ‘ It was just that I had other things on my mind . |
9 | Erm , it 's just that I had , I 'd told the auditors about but I do n't think that anybody 's and I was unsure we should do that with . |
10 | I it 's just that I remember on Monday morning hearing on the radio that it was being talked about that afternoon and of course immediately forgot to go and get a copy of the next day 's Guardian and read about it and all the other |
11 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
12 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
13 | ‘ It 's just that I doubt that your grandmother sent you after me with instructions to — to abduct me and drag me to Rome at any cost . ’ |
14 | ‘ It 's just that I thought there might be something wrong … ’ |
15 | ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense . |
16 | ‘ I did n't mean to embarrass you , Guy … it 's just that I thought … |
17 | No I , no I understand what you 're saying , it 's just that I thought you said three questions of each . |
18 | ‘ It 's just that I like it here with you . |
19 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
20 | ‘ It 's not that I mind wasting my time , it 's just that I like to know that I 'm wasting my time . ’ |
21 | it 's just that I like it you know . |
22 | No it 's just that I like to get all this out of the way . |
23 | I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him . |
24 | ‘ It 's just that I said … . ’ |
25 | It 's just that I wish I 'd got my wretched memory back some other way . ’ |
26 | It 's just that I du n no I mean |
27 | It 's just that I prefer the other rooms . ’ |
28 | It 's just that I 've got this feeling about it all . |
29 | Just that I 've got to get over there fast . ’ |
30 | It 's just that I 've never met a policeman before . ’ |