Example sentences of "just to be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ OK , we 'll make it half-eight just to be on the safe side . ’ |
| 2 | But just to be on the safe side Mrs Lawson was stationed in 11 Downing Street , giving her husband a convenient reason to visit the capital if circumstances took a sudden turn for the worse . |
| 3 | I 'd best take a look , just to be on the safe side . ’ |
| 4 | Just to be on the safe side ? ’ |
| 5 | We discussed my pacifism , and on one occasion I denied my convictions , just to be on his side . |
| 6 | She must fetch her raincoat , just to be on the safe side . |
| 7 | ‘ Just to be on the safe side ’ , said Mrs Joel . |
| 8 | Rufus , however , suggested he should take a look , just to be on the safe side . |
| 9 | Briefly Bodie explained what was going to happen : that Liz was going to be smuggled into the house from the taxi that would take the family home , and she was there just to be on the safe side , in case the man who had killed their two pets came back late at night . |
| 10 | They seemed to be doing fine , but just to be on the safe side we gave them another four days to adapt . |
| 11 | They are not relevant to his argument , since students of rock climbing would be sufficiently gobsmacked just to be on a top-rope at Land 's End . |
| 12 | Erlich was content just to be on home territory . |
| 13 | But just to be on the safe side , the UN has called in its senior officials to be fitted with bullet-proof waistcoats . |
| 14 | If your joints are good , no cramping is necessary but I did put a couple of webbing cramps on my chair just to be on the safe side . |
| 15 | Two is enough really but just to be on the safe side use three and if they do n't all lie in the same straight line then one of them 's wrong . |
| 16 | ‘ Take a bucket with you , ’ advised Lydia , not solicitously , just to be on the safe side . |
| 17 | Just to be on the safe side we had a long rope attached to the raft and tied round a tree on the bank so that if the Indians lost control the rope would pull it to a stop . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've got to die to be dropped from our Fourths , and then it 's best to be cremated just to be on the safe side . |
| 19 | Dougal had arranged to hire it for the Sunday and the Monday , just to be on the safe side . |
| 20 | Having your own original opinions was clearly a major flaw in a mirza and , just to be on the safe side , the Mirza Nama offers a few acceptable opinions for the young gentleman to learn by heart and adopt as his own . |
| 21 | Before starting make a backup of any important files — just to be on the safe side . |
| 22 | And just to be on the safe side , Mr Kane and his staff also visit their suppliers ' premises from time to time to check conditions there . |
| 23 | But just to be on the safe side , we 're taking the Coal Board to court . |
| 24 | Just to be on the safe side I also set up a stick float and a bleak whip but I was hoping I would n't need them — so much for being positive . |
| 25 | Just to be on the safe side , though , and without telling Nisodemus , he found some more chain and , in one of the greasy old toolboxes in Jekub 's shed , a padlock nearly as big as he was . |
| 26 | Just to be on the safe side , she kept Bridget out of it altogether . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll go along there , just to be on the safe side . |
| 28 | All they had to do was pile the earth back on top of the coffin and toss in a few bulbs of garlic just to be on the safe side . |
| 29 | Just to be on the safe side . |
| 30 | We 've done a quick calculation of interview sheets that we think we , we need , I need two boxes for Caernarfon , Jan needs three , we 've got four and a half boxes already , we were gon na order two just to be on the same safe , but we 're just looking into erm whether we need , how many we need on the R S I 's on the M sixty three cos we might as well order them all together , save |