Example sentences of "just what i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we define publishing as the production of information in a printed form you may begin to realise just what I mean ; price lists , company reports , catalogues , advertisements , newsletters , memos , the list gets longer the more you think about it . |
| 2 | There is , regretfully , no space in this article to spell out in greater detail just what I mean by these dynamic explanatory constructs . |
| 3 | That 's just what I figured . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That 's just what I 'd been thinking ! ’ answered Gabriel in surprise . |
| 5 | This is just what I thought it 'd be like on the streets of Chicago . |
| 6 | Oh good brother , just what I thought that drop my jaw something I do n't know the rest of the words . |
| 7 | They seemed delighted that I 'd said it , and to know just what I meant . |
| 8 | That 's just what I fancy . |
| 9 | Demelza , five , of Oakworth , West Yorks , said : ‘ She 's just what I 've been looking for . |
| 10 | It 's just what I 've been hoping for ! |
| 11 | I 'm not gon na ar , I mean that 's just what I 've got down . |
| 12 | This chart could then be used as the basis for an essay or a piece of revision and — although the words used might be different — you would , in fact , end up by saying just what I said in that portion of text above . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning , but when I looked on the floor , there was the veil , torn in two halves ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Just what I said . |
| 15 | ‘ Just what I said . |
| 16 | Erm well really it 's just what I said , it 's er roughly speaking it 's when er a string of words does n't have the meaning you 'd expect on the basis of the standard semantics of the language , but rather has a fixed different meaning and whenever there 's any apparent structure in it , I E several words , er , their , their normal meanings are irrelevant which is the meaning of the whole phrase . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's just what I said to Mr Yarrow . |
| 18 | It 's just what I said before . |
| 19 | Yeah , that 's just what I said . |
| 20 | That 's just what I said during the news interview , was n't it ? |
| 21 | I did just what I had to do , and never realised that it was my best . |
| 22 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 23 | It seemed an eternity before Dad arrived home at one o'clock and he hardly had time to get indoors before I blurted out just what I had discovered . |
| 24 | Eventually , I found out about the Dog Welfare and Rescue Society in Stokenchurch and spoke to the kennel manager who said just what I had been longing to hear . |
| 25 | Yes but you tend not to get recycling of housing land of housing , you tend to get recycling of housing land , new housing land from outworn industries , nonconforming use , that type of erm recycling is just what I had in mind . |
| 26 | Just what I want , ’ said the man . |
| 27 | Indeed as you watch drama on television you often think " That 's just what I want for tomorrow 's lesson . " |
| 28 | Then I heard the monster 's voice : ‘ It pleases me that you have decided to live , because that is just what I want . ’ |
| 29 | This is just what I want to hear . |
| 30 | ERIC Clapton closed his blues night with a touching version of a Bessie Smith classic , but as he sang ‘ Makes no difference what I do/Some folks will criticise/I 'm gon na do just what I want to do ’ , it seemed as if he was anticipating his reviews . |