Example sentences of "just [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was subjected to beatings just for being black . |
| 2 | It would be just like being asleep in a box . |
| 3 | Her job might be one of considerable stress and strain , but she really had been incredibly lucky , Laura told herself , not just in being able to afford to buy a penthouse apartment in this large , architectually prestigious warehouse development beside the river at Wapping , but also in managing to persuade her old school-friend Julie to come and share the apartment with her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 6 | Perhaps to Miss Fairgrieves , who was rather elderly , just to be young might seem amusing ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | C just to be accurate on the status of the the the document . |
| 11 | Just to be nosy like , you know . |
| 12 | Just to be awkward . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Make it make it twelve X just to be awkward |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is just to be cautious about carrying ideas far beyond the regimes in which they have currently been tested . |
| 17 | He had said that just to be polite . |
| 18 | ‘ He was called Simon too , just to be confusing . |
| 19 | It could be quite a marathon : Saturday in St Andrews ( Town Hall ) and Sunday in Edinburgh ( St Andrew 's Hall , just to be confusing ) . |
| 20 | Why could n't he have had the decency just to be straight with her ? |
| 21 | As Terry Dennett says , the point is not just to be visible as a human being but t make the process visible . |
| 22 | ‘ Or even not to be fucked up , just to be regular . |
| 23 | The outside air temperature was above minimum , but I switched on the engine anti-ice anyway , just to be sure . |
| 24 | 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 : |
| 25 | Just to be sure . |
| 26 | He made a grunting noise just to be sure that Gurder heard him . |
| 27 | ‘ And I 've just been back and checked just to be sure , ’ his mate added . |
| 28 | ‘ I searched it , just to be sure . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Wickham showed the photograph just to be sure . |