Example sentences of "just [vb past] [pron] to " in BNC.
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1 | I knew it was so necessary and just applied myself to doing everything they told me . ’ |
2 | She just made it to the bathroom in time , before she parted unceremoniously with the contents of her stomach , then hung weakly against the side of the washbasin , more wretched and humiliated than she 'd ever felt in her life . |
3 | Have you had a copy of , dare I say it , the tabulation which was produced by the panel , which summarized the various er submissions , and if I just read them to you . |
4 | I was dead happy there and then , all of a sudden , they came one day and just moved me to another home . |
5 | Just beat me to it . |
6 | He basically just told me to be myself . |
7 | Well I expect he just handed it to Tim and Tim picked it up thinking it was smooth . |
8 | No problem though for Tony he just hit it to the other side . |
9 | It was a wet morning so they just took him to the corner and ran him to the corner of Richmond Row in his bare feet — brought him back — ‘ Put your shoes on ! ’ |
10 | The agent just gave it to me , which obviously meant he wanted him to do it and is unusual because they do n't normally give out telephone numbers . |
11 | let's say let's say I just gave it to you like that . |
12 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
13 | Though they did n't read much they had a huge library and they just left me to it so I did read without direction . |
14 | He just left me to it . ’ |
15 | They just left you to it ? |
16 | You , you ju just left it to the midwife . |
17 | They just wanted everybody to be nice , like they 're nice to you when you 're a kid . |
18 | He just wanted everything to be clear , like in a court of law . |
19 | ‘ I just wanted us to be married as soon as possible . |
20 | O K , I just wanted us to , to do that erm , because erm , one of the things that I suspect when you 're getting down to doing your plan tomorrow , is that with the best will in the world , even though I say but this is for sales course , one of things you will want objectively to look at is either your revenue or your trading base or something , er , I just wanted to carry that through . |
21 | Yeah I 'm writing a letter to mothers I 'm writing a letter to mum and I just wanted it to be . |
22 | Yet he did not retaliate : he ‘ just wanted it to be over ’ . |
23 | I just wanted you to be sure that she 's dangerous to us . |