Example sentences of "just that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give each viewer the chance to do just that . |
| 2 | Mr Maclean said outbreaks of Salmonella enteriditis and reports of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy had stabilised but also recognised that the problem had not disappeared , just that interest had waned . |
| 3 | Survival was the name of the game and I was managing to do just that . |
| 4 | Then woke to the empty pillow beside hers ; body stretched in delicious ecstasy , as if her sweet saint had just that second ghosted away . |
| 5 | Just that and she was gone . |
| 6 | But when they met , dinner at home , dinner out , dinner at Dionne 's , they had taken to sleeping together , sometimes just that , warmth in Dionne 's huge silky bed or hers , and sometimes a deep and wonderful sexual fusion , neither planned nor yearned after . |
| 7 | Just that . |
| 8 | ‘ Just that . |
| 9 | ‘ I was thinking just that myself . ’ |
| 10 | Yet some writers seem to think that the laws do just that ; and that the quantitative observations encompassed in the laws take us beyond ( subjective ) experience because they are based upon objective measures of physical energy , utilizing scientific instruments . |
| 11 | It 's just that … well , I need to feel touched by a topic , connected . |
| 12 | And just that , nothing more , is what Prothero is telling him . |
| 13 | Do they not find there ( I know I do ) just that suffocation Olson speaks of ? |
| 14 | Just that panicky fear , always on the verge of turning into hatred until we shamefacedly choke it back ? |
| 15 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |
| 16 | In fact it worked out well for Fouroux , since most of his players ran into the sort of form which , if reproduced tonight , will make the Home Union 's players wish they were just that — at home . |
| 17 | And the weakness of these works is not just that Hall can not integrate ‘ arty ’ steps into jazz without them looking like destitute cliches , it is that his dancers are not adequately trained to look comfortable in mainstream styles . |
| 18 | Mr Lawson denied he had acted as if sterling was a full member of the EMS , but his decision to hold the pound above DM3 with higher base rates was seen by several analysts as just that . |
| 19 | Convenience means just that . |
| 20 | President Kennedy sent a telegram , Richard Nixon praised ‘ one of those who began with nothing but his own ability , and achieved greatness on just that ’ . |
| 21 | But this American fund raising business is just that - a business . |
| 22 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
| 23 | Sure enough , Joseph Chamberlain and others proceeded to do just that ; and sure enough , it was the Canadians who patiently but persistently explained that they would have none of it . |
| 24 | It is not just that high myth looks down towards low present reality . |
| 25 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |
| 26 | A fitter and I went up and did just that . |
| 27 | for just that reason Seljalandsfoss is best viewed from the side , unlike most other waterfalls . |
| 28 | ‘ O.K. , it 's just that … ’ |
| 29 | It 's just that — well , last night I was having a drink with him at the Dragon . ’ |
| 30 | But they are more than just that . |