Example sentences of "just [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't believe it 's just me you 've taken a violent dislike to — ’ |
| 2 | ’ Maybe ’ , Mala said , after I 'd shared some these speculations with her , ’ it was just someone who does n't like you ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It does n't matter — just someone who lived a long time ago — best forgotten . ’ |
| 4 | Like any celebrity city , Los Angeles is rife with gossip and in Hollywood , anyone who gets ’ completely loaded ’ is nota burping lager lout , just someone who drinks slightly more than you do . |
| 5 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Just someone I know . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Lori is just someone I know . ’ |
| 8 | I 've already told you Lori is just someone I know , and has nothing to do with any of this , ’ she countered . |
| 9 | Sorry , he 's just someone I went out with who thought he had exclusive rights to my body . ’ |
| 10 | Maybe he was just someone I 'd dreamed up . |
| 11 | He was just someone I knew . |
| 12 | That one e erm I mean I 'm a I was just I I said twenty pound O six , it was a quick calculation , it ends up at seventeen per cent margin . |
| 13 | I saw a multitude of options and the dilemma was just which one to concentrate on . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's the story when something goes wrong : ‘ Not our normal standard , just somebody we picked off the street , do n't judge us by her blah blah . ’ |
| 15 | At Sainsbury 's , it 's not just you we look after . |
| 16 | Is it just you who signs the cheque ? |
| 17 | It 's not just you who finds the clues though . |
| 18 | Safe as houses , you do n't forfeit it by not claiming it it 's just you you know you you as and when you need it . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , waitress , ’ said the lady in a distressed tone , ‘ Just who I wanted , could I have three of today 's specials , two strawberry milkshakes and one prawn cocktail with extra mayonnaise . |
| 20 | Done the whole job properly , and what happens , in come the major authority and just everything we done out the window . |
| 21 | pleasant enough , you know , but it 's just everything you 've done , you know |
| 22 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 23 | Just one I think |
| 24 | Was it just one he wrote himself was it . |
| 25 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 26 | It was really interesting to hear from a personal view , as well , actually , you know , I mean rainforests are to most of us just something we see on the television or we see pictures , it 's sort of a rather romantic idea , or a mythic idea , it 's lovely to talk to someone who 's got a much more overall view of the whole problem . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's just something we started doing , ’ says Edgar . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's just something we found . |
| 29 | That 's just something they tell you to keep control over you . |
| 30 | It was just something you had or had n't done . |