Example sentences of "just [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He said , with great politeness , that he would be in the buttery , always supposing anyone wanted to know , and Tybion the Tusk got up and helped him open the door , just to be friendly .
2 ‘ And I 'm really expected to believe that Donal , of his own bat , sent me to Wexford to meet you , knowing you were about to seek out my family , just to be friendly ?
3 Perhaps to Miss Fairgrieves , who was rather elderly , just to be young might seem amusing ?
4 Do n't tell Madeleine I said so because she 'll deny it just to be contrary , but I 'm very much hoping the two of them will soon be getting engaged .
5 Yes , but I think there 's no need to buy computers just to be clever or to be well ahead of your neighbours or your other business friends .
6 Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like …
7 C just to be accurate on the status of the the the document .
8 Just to be nosy like , you know .
9 Just to be awkward .
10 tell me about taking bearings , what do you do , let's give you an example , of some bearings to take , erm , and then you can tell me what you 're doing , so there 's a point there , and we 'll call that erm , P , just to be awkward , now let's say what we 'll do , this is what we 'll d , this is a typical problem in fact , erm , I 'll even draw that line on for you to start with , yeah , here 's the problem , a ship is sailing due North , okay , and when it 's at the point of A it takes a bearing on the lighthouse , so the lighthouse is somewhere , do n't know where it is , but bearing of L from A is forty five degrees , and the bearing of L from B , which is when the ship has sailed on a lot further
11 Make it make it twelve X just to be awkward
12 Okay well you put three times twelve that 's what you were going to say so , if Claire puts six times six you put three times twelve and I 'll put four times nine just to be awkward .
13 It is just to be cautious about carrying ideas far beyond the regimes in which they have currently been tested .
14 He had said that just to be polite .
15 ‘ He was called Simon too , just to be confusing .
16 It could be quite a marathon : Saturday in St Andrews ( Town Hall ) and Sunday in Edinburgh ( St Andrew 's Hall , just to be confusing ) .
17 Why could n't he have had the decency just to be straight with her ?
18 As Terry Dennett says , the point is not just to be visible as a human being but t make the process visible .
19 ‘ Or even not to be fucked up , just to be regular .
20 The outside air temperature was above minimum , but I switched on the engine anti-ice anyway , just to be sure .
21 The road in question was to be the new North Parade , and — just to be sure — the Trustees wanted permission if necessary to knock down almost the whole of Pig Street and a lot else besides , including :
22 Just to be sure .
23 He made a grunting noise just to be sure that Gurder heard him .
24 ‘ And I 've just been back and checked just to be sure , ’ his mate added .
25 ‘ I searched it , just to be sure . ’
26 With Sycorax on her back , Ariel dropped on to her haunches and took up her baby and tied him in a cloth to her breast ; she rubbed his mouth with soursop juice to keep him dry so that he would not howl with discomfort to be changed ( she packed soft moss against his bottom , just to be sure ) ; then she took a basket of her herbs and preparations and whistled softly to Paca , the last of her caveys , to follow .
27 Wickham showed the photograph just to be sure .
28 But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance .
29 I knew Malpass would have had no more than a fleeting glimpse of them , but just to be sure , I went behind the bar and found an empty crisp box .
30 And , just to be sure , I 've asked Gamal 's friend , the one who works in Al-Liwa , to be there too . ’
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