Example sentences of "just [to-vb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want it , I 'm not here just to go and collect trolleys for four hours , and the get really pissed off with it . |
| 2 | But it would be nice just to go and have a quick check . |
| 3 | One of the things I do recall , Command in its wisdom used to send some of its very senior people to spend a period — not to fly mind you — but just to see and taste the scene at an operational station . |
| 4 | I TRAVELLED 350 miles the other weekend just to see and photograph ‘ Blue Peter ’ on the Settle and Carlisle . |
| 5 | just to try and cope with it |
| 6 | Jinny rattled on , less from politeness than just to try and cover the terrible , wooden silence . |
| 7 | like it you know , you , you can spend a lot of bloody money just to try and improve |
| 8 | ‘ Would you mind if I followed you back — just to try and see if anybody else is trying to ? |
| 9 | ‘ Is this decision of yours just to try and thwart me , or do you have any particular reason ? ’ |
| 10 | Well I suppose it 's it 's just to try and find out different opinions on on different wars and things like that . |
| 11 | But it is just to try and ask you to think ways in which you could help in this particular way in whichever way there is . |
| 12 | Colleagues , just to try and let you know what , er I 've got in my mind concerning the business that 's fell off the agenda yesterday and today so far . |
| 13 | But erm and I just felt oh fancy all this way just to come and sit and play cards . |
| 14 | around Easter time erm would yous be able to take some person just to come and sit in your shop for a week out of our school ? |
| 15 | Get an upholsterer just to come and tidy it up |
| 16 | Well some , I think it 's probably British Section , probably the best way just to write and say that we know , this is the case |
| 17 | Splendid buildings with grand entrances and such smart people going in and out that it was a pleasure just to stand and watch them . |
| 18 | It 's expected to take two months just to identify and catalogue the antiques so they can be matched with items reported stolen.Two men are helping police with their inquiries . |
| 19 | So , third , the purpose of the Council was not just to restate and defend past doctrines — for that a Council was not necessary — but to ‘ make a leap forward in doctrinal insight and the education of consciences in ever greater fidelity to authentic teaching . |
| 20 | In Act v , Scene v , of Jonson 's Volpone Mosca enters dressed as a gentleman ; it is a moment which might be seen to mark the arrival of the urban impostor , he or she who knows that mimicry and impersonation possess the potential not just to deceive and usurp , but also to subvert social differentiation and identity itself : |
| 21 | If we make an acquisition , it 's just to tune and complement our business , ’ he said . |
| 22 | But I come whenever I can , just to watch and listen . |
| 23 | Right how much should we take out of this just to learn and concentrate on for all of next week ? |
| 24 | Talk by lecturers of students developing their critical abilities is just cant when students are obliged to adopt atomistic and surface approaches just to assimilate and reproduce the course content , and where they are expected to spend many hours every day in the laboratory or to complete an essay every week , and to sit ten or more 3-hour papers in 2 weeks . |
| 25 | In mid-1990 a law was passed in Delaware that enabled banks incorporated there not just to underwrite and sell insurance , but also to conduct reinsurance business . |
| 26 | Yes , we do need to fight and I did make reference that we need not just to organize and cooperate with other public sector workers , but we actually need to build a campaign with the users of the services . |