Example sentences of "they just [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women , erm from men 's departments , cos they just , like she said they , I do n't know why , but they just seemed to sort of |
| 2 | They just tend to be more intense in stepfamilies . ’ |
| 3 | They just said to him : ‘ Come with us ! ' ’ |
| 4 | They just had to be there and play well and perform well . |
| 5 | A governess has no time of her own , no friends , no one to talk to , and if she gets angry with the children , they just run to their mother . |
| 6 | Or perhaps they just went to the pub instead . |
| 7 | They just go to pieces . ’ |
| 8 | But then there are a lot of wedding fairs and it 's in the end you know , brides I mean there ca n't be any keener than brides , they just go to extremes in their preparation . |
| 9 | They just like to sort of I do n't know why but they just seem to sort of |
| 10 | erm , and to use a word that would be used in other areas , retraining goes on , amongst the judiciary or do they just get to this pinnacle , and then hold it against all comers , until they choose to retire , I mean , in any other , er , job where you have a peculiar expertise , like that , you would be expected to update yourself , to keep up with the trends , you would be sent away to conferences , and retraining courses . |
| 11 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |
| 12 | They just happened to be around after Mass when volunteers were needed . |
| 13 | They just happened to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 14 | They just want to be seen calling at the house . ’ |
| 15 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 16 | They just want to the person who 's actually |
| 17 | Although they live together and have children they do n't seem to be a couple , they just seem to be two people who do their own thing . |
| 18 | Okay well we 're in a really bad situation , I mean we can achieve something at least and perhaps oh perhaps communism does n't work after all , they just seem to be doubting their own beliefs and what they 've read . |
| 19 | Yeah although the tape 's on I 'll still say I 'll still say I mean there are people within the company as within any company I 'm sure who you when you get to know their technical ability or lack thereof you think well how have they managed to get where they have but they just seem to be able they seem to have this ability to be able to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 20 | They just like to sort of I do n't know why but they just seem to sort of |
| 21 | ‘ They just wanted to be seen as loyal citizens . ’ |
| 22 | He would not accept their continual bleatings that they just wanted to ‘ be in a band and make great records . ’ |
| 23 | Th , they just need to , to think about the game . |
| 24 | But we emphasis that nominations need not be famous names ; they just need to be people who have distinguished themselves by their courage or achievement . |
| 25 | Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harriers had 21 winners as they just lost to Liverpool in the Woolworths Young Athletes Northern Premier League fixture at York . |
| 26 | Well that 's it , they just they just see to it all . |
| 27 | They just refused to be flushed . ’ |
| 28 | Well they just gone to , they 're going to Europe . |
| 29 | On the telly they just talk to people and find things out . |
| 30 | Now , I do agree with that , that if you phone up and somebody phones you and they just talk to you and then for about five minutes later , the person at the other end of the phone says , ‘ I 'm in a meeting ’ , and you just thought ‘ Well , why on earth did n't you say that in the first place ? ’ , so there is another side to that one . |