Example sentences of "just [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was shocked in the sense that I knew what inspectors could do , but I was n't worried because I thought they were just wasting their time . ’ |
| 2 | Can all those bracing ‘ think European ’ messages have fallen on completely stony ground , and were Lord Young , Alan Sugar and Sir John Harvey-Jones just wasting their breath and the tax-payers ' money ? |
| 3 | Just wasting our time ! |
| 4 | He 's had me there specifically , so I 'm just wasting my time . |
| 5 | Otherwise you 're just wasting your time . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're not just wasting your time here , I take it ? ’ asks his father . |
| 7 | You 're just wasting your time . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 'd just answer my question , I would n't have to search all your rooms . ’ |
| 9 | But then the other man seemed to regain control of himself , for the next moment he was shinning up the rope as though he had just realised his life depended on it — quite literally ! |
| 10 | Some theorists feel that the : is too imprecise and there is a need to state the nature of a relationship , not just to signal its existence . |
| 11 | You just bring your toothbrush . ’ |
| 12 | Kendal just bring your chair over . |
| 13 | then that and he just bring me pack of cards you know er but er that 's how it 's been for a while you know if I thought well being a sh that that 's now we 've done it it 's a pity we 've not got , mind you I mean it can go potty again in a few years . |
| 14 | Erm , right , what I would like you to do , and what we 've agreed is that , just introduce your partner . |
| 15 | WILLIAMS ) came in at a run from the " Coriolanus " matin e e , still in his toga , and just made his position in time . ] |
| 16 | You just made your mind very cold and distant . |
| 17 | She had just given her body — so long and so carefully guarded — for a length of brown satin . |
| 18 | ( I have just given my chaplain a good rap across the knuckles ; that will teach him to make remarks like , ‘ And Master Daunbey had good knowledge of fools , having you as a servant . ’ ) |
| 19 | The infant Labour Party was just building its strength , but it was not yet capable of winning seats on its own , and it might have been checkmated for a generation by a positive social policy financed from tariffs . |
| 20 | Now if we can just lower our tapwater nitrate levels … |
| 21 | Levy 's voice is as rough as a shag on the floor of a sandpaper factory , the lyric is utterly ridiculous , describing the popularity and stylishness of a certain fashionable item , and the soprano sax added to that tender little guitar lick from the Arrested Development record just upsets your soul . |
| 22 | They just lose their balance occasionally . |
| 23 | Well you do n't know you 're on it until you hit it and then you just lose your steering and your wheels just go all over the place |
| 24 | ‘ No , I just hate your hat . |
| 25 | It 's flexible , so you can either count calories or follow a weekly menu plan — just make your choice . |
| 26 | Just make your handwriting as clear as possible under the circumstances because it 's er it 'll speed the process up quite a bit |
| 27 | Just make your mind up , cos daddy be out in a minute , that film 's nearly finished |
| 28 | Mrs Lynn Dart , the mother of murdered Leeds teenager Julie Dart , had just completed her evidence in the trial of Michael Sams at Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 29 | Lynn Dart , the mother of murdered Leeds teenager Julie Dart , had just completed her evidence in the trial of Michael Sams at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday . |
| 30 | At the Swan Hotel in Stratford , Mrs Roscoe had just completed her evening meal , a concoction of beans so splendidly bleak as to delight the most dedicated Vegan . |