I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a just cause (= an aim that is fair and right )
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The rebels believed that they were fighting for a just cause.
a just society
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We are making progress towards a just society.
a just war (= one that you believe is right )
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They believe that they are fighting a just war.
be (just) what/who you are looking for
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‘Salubrious’! That’s just the word I was looking for.
hang on a sec/hold on a sec/just a sec etc (= wait a short time )
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‘Is Al there?’ ‘Hold on a sec, I’ll check.’
It just goes to show
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It just goes to show how much people judge each other by appearances.
it just popped out
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I didn’t mean to say it like that – it just popped out .
it’s just what I’ve always wanted (= used to thank someone for a present that you really like )
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Thanks for the bread machine – it's just what I've always wanted.
just a few
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I could suggest many different methods, but anyway, here are just a few .
just a moment (= used when telling someone to wait )
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Just a moment, I’ll go and get her.
Just a second (= wait a moment )
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Just a second , I’ll come and help.
just about
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It’s just about the worst mistake anyone could make.
Just about
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‘Have you finished?’ ‘ Just about .’
just across
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He knew that just across the border lay freedom.
just along (= a short distance along )
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The bathroom is just along the corridor.
just as many
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They say the people of Los Angeles speak 12 languages and teach just as many in the schools.
(just) as you wish (= used in formal situations to tell someone you will do what they want )
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‘I’d like it to be ready by six.’ ‘Just as you wish, sir.’
just as (= equally )
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His last album sold half a million copies and we hope this one will be just as popular.
just ducky
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Well, that’s just ducky .
just like
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I’d just like to say how grateful we are for your help.
just like
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It’s just like her to run away from her responsibilities!
just like (= exactly like )
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Sometimes you sound just like my mum!
just now especially BrE (= at the present time )
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There are a lot of bargains in the shops just now.
just outside
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Bolton is a mill town just outside Manchester.
just passing through (= travelling through a place )
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We were just passing through and thought we’d drop in to see you.
just past (= a little further than )
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There are parking spaces over there, just past the garage.
(just) the once British English spoken
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Mrs Peterson came in to see Ruth just the once.
Just then
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Silently she closed the door. Just then she heard a noise.
just this/that moment (= only a very short time ago )
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I had just that moment arrived.
just to spite
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The neighbours throw things over the garden wall just to spite us.
just under
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I spend just under four hours a day seeing customers.
just
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I just want to be left alone.
just/a little short of sth
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She was just short of six feet tall.
just/exactly the same sth
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That’s funny – Simon said exactly the same thing.
just/fitting (= appropriate and right )
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Death would be a just punishment.
just/only kidding
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Don’t get mad – I was only kidding.
just/only/merely etc a formality
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Getting a gun license here seems to be just a formality.
just/quite the opposite (= exactly the opposite )
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He wasn’t laughing. Quite the opposite, in fact.
sth is just/only the beginning (= used to emphasize that many more things will happen )
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Signing the contract is just the beginning of a long process.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
beginning
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It was cool, with the sun just beginning to warm their arms and the stones in the wall along the drive.
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But string theory is just beginning to be understood.
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The wheats look good, with Apollo just beginning to turn, he adds.
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A light snowfall was just beginning , and Jasper looked like wonder itself with snowflakes in his hair.
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The cold clouds seen at 100 micrometres are large and diffuse, evidently just beginning to condense under their own gravity.
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But I was just beginning my career, and had put too much into it to give it up.
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Delrina says it will exploit the signal processing capabilities that some facsimile modem manufactures are just beginning to build into their products.
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But what I feel instead is acceptance hedging on satisfaction and a faint promise for the day just beginning .
come
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His one chance came just before half-time when a defender's shins blocked his shot.
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Dunne went down the stairs they had just come up into an immense smoke-filled room.
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But I don't think he comes just for that, he seems genuinely concerned for him.
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And then on the way over to the bookstore it just came to me in a flash.
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It came just 60 seconds after Robert Molenaar had handled the ball in his own box with referee Andy D'Urso unsighted.
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He just came down from Kent.
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Cheques Unreserved seats available from one hour before most performances - just come along.
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They just come out of my mouth by themselves.
feel
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Deee-Lite, though, just feel very misunderstood.
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And there may be a few scattered works where applause would just feel wrong.
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It just felt as though, once, some one had found that it worked.
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And she felt just as apprehensive as she always did here.
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Once or twice she met Carrie's eye and smiled as if to say she felt just as she did.
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I just felt like it was time to go.
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I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it.
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I just felt I had to play, and get back in uniform.
get
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She's had people in, but they can't find any reason for it, and it's just getting worse.
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But just getting out of the way of good ideas, important as it is, will not be enough.
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Here, mostly you just get right up their patrician noses.
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After 1 have one of those, I just get my secretary to cancel my appointments and drive me home.
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It's a bit disconcerting to be minding your own business. Just getting on with things.
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But we just got better and better as we played together.
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He was sure if he could just get the craft to join, the 12 main latches would trigger.
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Because whenever I think about it, it just gets me mad.
go
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So I developed five acres on my own account and things just went on from there.
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Nope -- the Dogpatch council just went and annexed without notifying them.
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Maybe he had been standing there so long his mind had just gone off the job.
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He was not ready to go just yet.
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His mother surely couldn't object if he just went and looked at it?
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Or just go to North Carolina and rent-a place on the Outer Banks.
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It just goes on and on.
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The league had just gone through a nine-week players strike, putting all of the Super Bowl plans on hold.
happen
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However, one of the most remarkable finds for the Gwili has just happened .
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Depending on your point of view, one of two things has just happened in boxing.
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This picture board just happens to be in a muddy field.
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And nobody planned it, it just happened .
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They just happened to be around after Mass when volunteers were needed.
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The reporters, oddly enough, just happen to be sitting there in the line of fire with nothing better to do.
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Panic, that was the first reaction to whatever it was that had just happened .
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Presuming there are no last-minute stays, that will happen just after midnight.
like
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Oh, while I m here just like to mention the new kit.
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I am seventeen, I had a family just like you do, 1 am a daughter, I am a sister.
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Since this has cropped up here I would just like to draw attention to it.
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It took exactly sixty days, just like I said.
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And just like this, under the moon.
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Just like the first step in project management.
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Female speaker I would just like to thank everyone who has supported me, family, friends, and everyone else.
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Just like a little tweety bird!
look
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When I confront him with his omissions and lies he just looks sheepish.
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I just looked for a short, clean-shaven Mr Barraza.
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Instead it just looks offensive-nasty as well as silly.
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Now they wanted to look just like the Gibson Girl, or despair of being beautiful or fashionable.
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It just looked me over closely, then flew into the roost in the pines to join the others.
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They just look forward to meeting the notorious killers again face to face.
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I was born a rabbit. just look at me.
wait
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That suddenly went to being able to play conservatively and just wait and see what happened.
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Some, like my son, are just waiting .
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Just wait until she saw that Tony Jones.
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Just wait until I suddenly puff myself up and reveal all!
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Gennaro asked Elisa if she would please just wait a little longer.
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Put things off, wait just long enough until she had a disaster on her hands.
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Formentera An almost totally unspoilt island just off the coast of southern Ibiza whose lazy sun-drenched calm just waits to be savoured.
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Just wait till you see what the public says in two months.
want
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I don't just want her.
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Once I picked it up, I just wanted to make sure I held on to it.
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I thought I was helping, but I just want to throw the coffee out of the window.
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I just wanted this man to approve of my performance.
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If I just wanted you, I'd be able to spend time alone with you without going half crazy.
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This would be a nice place to come if we just wanted to have a one-on-one chat.
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She just wanted to be left alone.
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Basically, I just want to be there for them like my dad was for me.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(I'm) just looking
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"Do you need help with anything?" "No thanks. We're just looking ."
(just) around/round the corner
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Around the corner , their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
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I rounded the corner , then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
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Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner .
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She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
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She peered round the corner of the house.
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She was around the corner , talking to Hoffmann.
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The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
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There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
(just) as ..., so ...
(just) for once
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But for once his famous ability to blend laughter and pain is overcome by the weight of his subject.
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But Holmes, for once , was wrong.
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In fact for once the human mussel-gatherers have come to the assistance of their natural competitors.
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Mrs Saulitis's cheerfulness was lost for once .
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Why not, for once , why not?
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You can't fault Ayckbourn's production but, for once , his comic vessel has problems carrying such emotionally heavy cargo.
(just) for the hell of it
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A lot of rich kids are turning to crime just for the hell of it.
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We used to go out every Saturday night and get drunk, just for the hell of it.
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For the hell of it l do an extra set of bun-twisters on my back, a perennial crowd-pleaser.
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For this interview, talking just for the hell of it, he was immeasurably more relaxed.
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He decided to walk down to the promontory by way of the market, just for the hell of it.
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He didn't really strike her as a particularly nosy person, just wanting to know things for the hell of it.
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I steal things I can't eat, just for the hell of it.
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Slanging matches with Craddock just for the hell of it.
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Why do so many people breed just for the hell of it?
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William Mulholland came to Los Angeles more or less for the hell of it.
(just) in case
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In case you missed the last program, here's a summary of the story.
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There are spare batteries in there, in case you need them.
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A few latecomers are nosing gloomily around in case the professionals have left anything worth having.
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Deep tendon reflexes are usually diminished, but in cases with prominent lateral column disease may be hyperactive with extensor plantar reflexes.
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How can an individual get permission to photocopy or videotape in cases where there is no fair use exception?
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In case a dish fails to appease a customer, Steve Carrasco can always make a flying getaway.
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In case you're wondering-for the hospital form-this is how you spell tetanus.
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Not typical in cases like this.
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They had delivered the correct total quantity of tins but half of them were packed in cases of 24 tins each.
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Viral cultures during an attack will give the diagnosis in cases such as these.
(just) out of interest/as a matter of interest
(just) plain Mr/Mrs etc
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And being Lord Aviemore is just like being plain Mr Aviemore, right?
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Cluedo's Reverend Green is to become plain Mr Green to bring one of the country's best-loved board games up to date.
(just) say the word
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Both of them said the word on the same downbeat, which made them burst into laughter at how hilarious they sounded.
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He could not bring himself to say the words, so great was his terror of plague.
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If there's anything I can do, you've only got to say the word.
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No one was actually prepared to say the word revolution-the one word in their vocabulary softened by success.
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The last team then has to say the word they had in mind.
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When the language helper says the words in a frame he will say them more naturally.
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When the truth was devastating, no wonder physicians avoided saying the words and patients refused to accept them.
(just) that little bit better/easier etc
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We have put together a few of the most popular itineraries to help make your choice that little bit easier.
(just) think
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But now, my dear fellows, let's just think about this a moment, shall we?
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I just think we can get it done.
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Just think of the businesses that take on people who are on the social.
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Just think of the economies of scale!
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Just think of those lemon groves outside my aunt's villa in Ravello.
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Just thinking about volunteer tutoring, little is known about the most basic of questions.
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Now he was trying to think of what he had just thought.
(just) this once
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OK, you can stay up till 11, but just this once .
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But the smiling man who clutched the real trophy after the game spoke, this once , for everyone.
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Carol told Petey this once to help him stop crying so she could take a look.
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Hadn't she seen something like this once before? she thought vaguely.
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He had sworn this once when he and Adrastus had quarreled and Eriphyle had reconciled them.
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Lawyers and supporters of the parents in Orkney questioned both the motives and the methods of this once trusted organisation.
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Maybe this once , the world will display itself as immutable.
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We've been through this once .
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We've done this once or twice before, as I vividly recall.
(just) you wait
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It'll be a huge success, just you wait .
I just wanted to say/know etc
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I asked them, and this is what they told me. I just wanted to know did you know any more.
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In the ambulance, I just wanted to know the damage.
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The truth of it was, as miserable as things were, I just wanted to say I had been there.
I know (just/exactly) how you feel
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I have a sudden urge to touch her, to hold her, to tell her I know how she feels .
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I knew how he felt about me -- a short blind boy who hated leather basketballs.
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I know how he feels about me!
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I know how you feel about it ... You would rather wait - wait till we're married.
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I know how you feel , Doyle thought.
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I know how you feel , they're all or nothing.
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You ran a decent campaign, John, and I know how it feels to lose.
I'm only/just doing my job
as it happens/it just so happens
be (just) coming up to sth
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A period when he was almost dead is coming up to the surface.
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He had a horrible premonition that she was coming up to Rome.
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Manion was coming up to his freeway exit.
be (just) the ticket
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And for those whose attention spans are trained to a short leash, it may be just the ticket .
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Humphrey and Senator Muskie were the ticket , but all that anybody remembered was Daley and his city.
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If their tours are as much fun as their zany brochure, Wild Women Adventures could be just the ticket .
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If you have a chronic condition that has made it difficult to exercise, this may be the ticket .
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They can be used as counters for they are the tickets to our mystic world.
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This bus could be just the ticket for a small family.
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This was just the ticket , I thought, sitting on my canvas chair, quietly digesting my cake.
be just (good) friends
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""Are you going out with Liam?'' ""No, we're just good friends .''
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I'm not going out with Nathan, you know - we're just friends .
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I keep telling my mother that Peter and I are just friends but she doesn't seem to believe me.
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Billy and I were just good friends , really good mates.
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But maybe he and Jane were just friends .
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Maureen and I - we thought we were just friends .
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My wife and I are just good friends .
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They were just friends , and he was fun to be with.
be just what the doctor ordered
be just/exactly so
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Everything has to be just so at Maxine's dinner parties.
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But this turned out to be just so much more Super Bowl hype.
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Flashman is just so bitter - he's blaming us, but we just wanted our money above aboard.
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I was just so furious that I swept out in high dudgeon.
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I was just so pumped up to do good.
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I went downstairs, I was just so struck by musicians and live music.
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If it was a microcap fund it would be different because there are just so many microcap stocks you can buy.
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Now, nations are just so many men like these.
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There were just so many animals around.
get/receive your (just) deserts
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Even a low-cal concoction can make us feel that we're getting our just deserts .
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From Llewelyn he would get his deserts , and be grateful for them.
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He was not a spiteful man, but he had enjoyed the sight of Spatz getting his deserts .
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Now the rich and the proud would get their just deserts .
it's (just) one of those days
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"Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days ."
it's (only/just) a matter/question of time
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But they believe it's only a matter of time before the disease crosses the county boundary.
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If he hasn't already killed somebody, then it's only a matter of time .
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They think it's only a matter of time before he breaks.
it's (only/just) human nature
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It's human nature to put off doing things you don't like to do.
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But it's human nature that people-male or female-will do what they are allowed to get away with.
it's just a thought
it's just as well (that)
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It's just as well I took the train today - I heard the traffic was really bad.
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Perhaps it is just as well .
it's just/only/simply a question of doing sth
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Sometimes, it's simply a question of somewhere safe to go after school while parents are working.
it's only/just a matter of time
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It was only a matter of time before Lynn found out Phil's secret.
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You'll learn how to do it eventually -- it's only a matter of time.
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Your father is dying and there's nothing we can do. I'm afraid it's just a matter of time.
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But they believe it's only a matter of time before the disease crosses the county boundary.
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If he hasn't already killed somebody, then it's only a matter of time.
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They think it's only a matter of time before he breaks.
just because ...
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Anyway, you can't dismiss the experimental method just because some irrational people choose not to put the findings into practice.
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He is just because he is vulnerable and challengeable.
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I can't break it, just because he's out of the country.
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Just because you shop at the local indoor mall does not make you an expert on the retail sector of the economy.
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Perhaps it's just because you don't like her?
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So just because you can't find it through a Web search doesn't mean it's not there.
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This is not just because Republicans are determined to make it so.
just like that
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At home the bowl of the sky is just like that.
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Certainly they impute to the accused a degree of mystical malevolence just like that implied in witchcraft charges.
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Could he abandon everything now, just like that?
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How many people came to this country and bought a house just like that?
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I put my arm round him and gave him a hug just like that.
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I was on tablets for two days and then taken off, just like that.
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The pickup switching configuration is just like that of a Strat, but obviously with a fatter tone from the humbuckers.
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They stopped, just like that.
just my luck
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Just my luck ! The one vacation I take all year, and I have to get sick.
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Married, is he? Just my luck .
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Great, I thought to myself, just my luck .
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It was just my luck to have bags made of light nylon, weighing in at ten kilos in total.
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No chance, I thought, just my luck the clocks aren't working.
just now
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But the gentleman will not take no for an answer, and even tried to push past me just now .
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Her own eyes were a muddy green, and just now they were spitting fire, like a little cat.
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I myself had started something of a relationship with her just now .
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Maybe the maids would have left some of the rooms open, if there was nobody staying in them just now .
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That betraying look in her eyes in the cloakroom just now must have told him he'd won again.
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The man, whose helping hand he had just now been the recipient of, was immediately behind him.
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When I was in Marcus just now he was normal.
just the job
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A bit of companionship with fellow climbers and walkers is just the job at the end of a hard day.
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Clinique, though, say their new Electric Shave Primer is just the job .
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Computerised databases are just the job for any record storage as many of you may know.
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She should not have mentioned Mrs Skipton, must learn to do the job , just the job and no more.
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The Cajun Kings were just the job , as was John.
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This could be just the job for her - and it would generate some new income to replace what we've lost.
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To decide which one is right for you, you have to consider more than just the job you do.
just the thing/the very thing
just/all the same
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The potatoes were a little overcooked, but delicious all the same .
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He made beer the same way as his grandfather had and today it's brewed just the same way.
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My father was a Hasid but he wanted us to know the Scriptures just the same .
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Some have felt they were all the same , maybe even the Apostle John.
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The look will be different, but the content, the coverage and the crack will be just the same .
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These strips are all the same , a sort of busy evolutionary seashore.
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Trout fishing is often a great challenge, but rewarding just the same , with gorgeous colored fish and the streamside beauty.
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Well, if it's all the same to you, we would rather be the judges of that.
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Yet all the same , progress resulted.
let's just say
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"So who was she with?" "Let's just say it wasn't Ted."
let's just say (that)
may/might/could (just) as well
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And if you have to plough the field anyway, you might as well plant it at the same time.
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And we might as well get used to it and resolve to cope.
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Besides, they cost so much, you might as well get some fun out of them.
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I thought I might just as well come down to the point.
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If the traveler expects the high way to be safe and well-graded, he might as well stay at home.
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It might as well be now.
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She might as well see how the enemy behaved themselves in a place like this.
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While she was there, they might as well have added the charge of breaching the Trades Description Act.
might (just) as well
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And if you have to plough the field anyway, you might as well plant it at the same time.
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But what is unavoidable may still be undesirable, and one might as well say so.
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D.W. had come in over ocean and flown low as a drug smuggler over what might as well be called treetops.
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He might as well have gotten down on his hands and knees and begged for it.
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He said we might as well go before his sister arrived, because once she came, it would be impossible.
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I might as well have been a convert, a Gentile.
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I thought I might just as well come down to the point.
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You might as well go to a branch.
not ... just/quite the opposite
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His falsity and hollowness are not just the opposite of the true and the wholesome, but threaten to undermine it.
not just a pretty face
not just any (old) man/woman/job etc
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And a T'ang is not just any man.
only just
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As it turns out, though, one of the greatest albums in his catalog has only just been released commercially.
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However, the hard part of Operation Restore Hope may have only just begun.
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It was sparsely furnished, for Anne had only just come into her inheritance, but it was newly decorated and clean.
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She must be dreaming, but surely she had only just gone to sleep.
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She remembered that he had a knack for getting people to stop shooting, and usually only just in time.
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The great black migration from the West Side-and from the Deep South-had only just begun.
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Unemployment is still only just half of what it was seven years ago.
sb is just fooling
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Don't pay any attention to Henry. He's just fooling .
sb was (just) minding their own business
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I was just walking along, minding my own business , when this guy ran straight into me.
sb would (just) as soon
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Absorbing Costs Self-defeating techniques yield consequences that most organizations would just as soon not deal with.
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After all, he delivers oil to you and would just as soon keep doing it.
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And a lot of them would just as soon not get this junk e-mail.
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And they would just as soon I was not there.
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Fiercely individualistic, Texas would just as soon give back the Alamo as institute a state tax.
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He would as soon not go.
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The dismissal of such people would stir up controversy the president would just as soon avoid.
sth is just one of those things
that's (just) the way sth/sb is/that's (just) the way sth goes
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And that's the way he is.
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And that's the way it is again this year - everybody is happy with what I am doing.
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But they think they can run everything from Detroit and that's the way the organisation is going to be restructured.
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Even the best generals sometimes lose with this army just because that's the way it is.
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For that's the way it is for the talented twosome.
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He's always been a bit on his dignity, I suppose, but that's the way he is.
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In the end Capirossi had to do the winning himself and that's the way 1991 is going to be.
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The money we got to spend - well, that's the way it is.
that's all I need/that's just what I didn't need
wait a minute/just a minute/hold on a minute/hang on a minute
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Can I speak to Tony please?'' "Sorry, you've just missed him.''
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"Does everyone have to wear uniform?" "No, just the first year students."
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"Were there a lot of people there?" "No, just me and David."
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A new handbag! That's just what I wanted.
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At the moment we're just making enough money to cover our costs.
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Can you wait five minutes? I just have to iron this.
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Could I just use your phone for a minute?
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He's just a kid. Don't be so hard on him.
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He and his brother are just the same -- lazy.
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He said he was leaving her and proceeded to do just that!
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He started his own small shop - at first just selling newspapers, then books and magazines.
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His car hit a wall, but he escaped with just cuts and bruises.
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I'm not sure just who you mean.
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I just can't believe it.
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I just got off the phone with Mrs. Kravitz.
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I just heard the news! Congratulations!
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I just made it to class on time.
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I didn't mean to interfere - I was just trying to help.
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I think she just wanted someone to talk to.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I suppose it's just something that I've learned to live with.
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I was just going to bed, he said.
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No doubt there are many, but I would like to single out just three.
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There would be nothing in the Rory Collins thing, she knew that, it was just a wild flirtation.
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Tree physiology and dendrochronology are just two of the possible applications for portable computer tomography.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cause
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The defense excused him for just cause .
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False testimony in support of a just cause was moral; for an unjust cause it was immoral.
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There are too few warriors and too few committed to a just cause .
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No longer revolutionaries, no longer a just cause - no longer, after all that, a cause at all.
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At that point failure to do so would have the same consequences as any other refusal to work without just cause .
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The mythology of this just cause was not inevitably tragic, though usually so.
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I could see no just cause for carrying on after arguing vehemently against the idea, then seeing it carried.
desert
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Now the rich and the proud would get their just deserts .
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Even a low-cal concoction can make us feel that we're getting our just deserts .
government
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For example, one may owe the duty to the just government of foreign countries.
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Both reject papal centralization and papal authority as a means for discerning just government .
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I have a duty to support just governments in foreign countries, even though they have no legitimate power over me.
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Imagine a relatively just government ruling over a relatively morally enlightened population.
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The existence of the occasional bad law enacted by a just government does not by itself establish much.
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Therefore, consent can not be justified as a necessary means to establish a just government .
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Noninstrumental validations of consent are, therefore, limited to consent to the authority of a reasonably just government .
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The main argument can not validate wholesale the authority of even reasonably just governments .
reward
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To see a job completed to the best of your ability and to the satisfaction of the customer is just reward .
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It would be just reward for their recent form, and no-one would begrudge them the honour.
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A handsome second-term majority will be his just reward .
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A medal of honour was his just reward .
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So for all their efforts they got their just reward .
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For Edgar Bronfman and Ivan Straker, however, it would have been just reward for their assistance, to the race.
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If Beth had got her just rewards , Tyler Blacklock had carved himself a very different destiny.
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It features a well thought out line of play which reaped a just reward .
society
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Because of these evils, we have failed to create a just society here.
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It points to some of the ethical roots of social action and the citizens' responsibilities towards a just society .
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As the quote from Guttierrez shows, the struggle to build a just society is itself part of the process of salvation.
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Indeed, the struggle for a more just society has historically entailed constant protest and demonstration to change oppressive laws.
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The reader will recognize the correspondences between Qaddafi's account of social organization and the Zuwaya image of the just society .
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Young's ideas are important because they cast serious doubt on liberal views of a just society .
war
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My partner, my family, and in a just war , my country.
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There is no such thing as a just war .
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Catholic morality approves of the view that to repel an aggressor is to engage in a just war .
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What is going on there is not just war , it is genocide.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(I'm) just looking
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"Do you need help with anything?" "No thanks. We're just looking ."
(just) around/round the corner
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Around the corner , their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
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I rounded the corner , then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
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Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner .
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She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
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She peered round the corner of the house.
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She was around the corner , talking to Hoffmann.
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The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
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There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
(just) as ..., so ...
(just) for once
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But for once his famous ability to blend laughter and pain is overcome by the weight of his subject.
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But Holmes, for once , was wrong.
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In fact for once the human mussel-gatherers have come to the assistance of their natural competitors.
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Mrs Saulitis's cheerfulness was lost for once .
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Why not, for once , why not?
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You can't fault Ayckbourn's production but, for once , his comic vessel has problems carrying such emotionally heavy cargo.
(just) for the hell of it
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A lot of rich kids are turning to crime just for the hell of it.
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We used to go out every Saturday night and get drunk, just for the hell of it.
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For the hell of it l do an extra set of bun-twisters on my back, a perennial crowd-pleaser.
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For this interview, talking just for the hell of it, he was immeasurably more relaxed.
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He decided to walk down to the promontory by way of the market, just for the hell of it.
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He didn't really strike her as a particularly nosy person, just wanting to know things for the hell of it.
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I steal things I can't eat, just for the hell of it.
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Slanging matches with Craddock just for the hell of it.
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Why do so many people breed just for the hell of it?
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William Mulholland came to Los Angeles more or less for the hell of it.
(just) in case
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In case you missed the last program, here's a summary of the story.
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There are spare batteries in there, in case you need them.
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A few latecomers are nosing gloomily around in case the professionals have left anything worth having.
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Deep tendon reflexes are usually diminished, but in cases with prominent lateral column disease may be hyperactive with extensor plantar reflexes.
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How can an individual get permission to photocopy or videotape in cases where there is no fair use exception?
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In case a dish fails to appease a customer, Steve Carrasco can always make a flying getaway.
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In case you're wondering-for the hospital form-this is how you spell tetanus.
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Not typical in cases like this.
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They had delivered the correct total quantity of tins but half of them were packed in cases of 24 tins each.
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Viral cultures during an attack will give the diagnosis in cases such as these.
(just) out of interest/as a matter of interest
(just) say the word
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Both of them said the word on the same downbeat, which made them burst into laughter at how hilarious they sounded.
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He could not bring himself to say the words, so great was his terror of plague.
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If there's anything I can do, you've only got to say the word.
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No one was actually prepared to say the word revolution-the one word in their vocabulary softened by success.
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The last team then has to say the word they had in mind.
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When the language helper says the words in a frame he will say them more naturally.
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When the truth was devastating, no wonder physicians avoided saying the words and patients refused to accept them.
(just) think
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But now, my dear fellows, let's just think about this a moment, shall we?
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I just think we can get it done.
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Just think of the businesses that take on people who are on the social.
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Just think of the economies of scale!
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Just think of those lemon groves outside my aunt's villa in Ravello.
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Just thinking about volunteer tutoring, little is known about the most basic of questions.
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Now he was trying to think of what he had just thought.
(just) this once
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OK, you can stay up till 11, but just this once .
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But the smiling man who clutched the real trophy after the game spoke, this once , for everyone.
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Carol told Petey this once to help him stop crying so she could take a look.
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Hadn't she seen something like this once before? she thought vaguely.
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He had sworn this once when he and Adrastus had quarreled and Eriphyle had reconciled them.
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Lawyers and supporters of the parents in Orkney questioned both the motives and the methods of this once trusted organisation.
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Maybe this once , the world will display itself as immutable.
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We've been through this once .
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We've done this once or twice before, as I vividly recall.
(just) you wait
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It'll be a huge success, just you wait .
I just wanted to say/know etc
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I asked them, and this is what they told me. I just wanted to know did you know any more.
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In the ambulance, I just wanted to know the damage.
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The truth of it was, as miserable as things were, I just wanted to say I had been there.
I know (just/exactly) how you feel
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I have a sudden urge to touch her, to hold her, to tell her I know how she feels .
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I knew how he felt about me -- a short blind boy who hated leather basketballs.
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I know how he feels about me!
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I know how you feel about it ... You would rather wait - wait till we're married.
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I know how you feel , Doyle thought.
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I know how you feel , they're all or nothing.
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You ran a decent campaign, John, and I know how it feels to lose.
I'm only/just doing my job
as it happens/it just so happens
be (just) coming up to sth
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A period when he was almost dead is coming up to the surface.
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He had a horrible premonition that she was coming up to Rome.
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Manion was coming up to his freeway exit.
be (just) the ticket
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And for those whose attention spans are trained to a short leash, it may be just the ticket .
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Humphrey and Senator Muskie were the ticket , but all that anybody remembered was Daley and his city.
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If their tours are as much fun as their zany brochure, Wild Women Adventures could be just the ticket .
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If you have a chronic condition that has made it difficult to exercise, this may be the ticket .
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They can be used as counters for they are the tickets to our mystic world.
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This bus could be just the ticket for a small family.
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This was just the ticket , I thought, sitting on my canvas chair, quietly digesting my cake.
be just (good) friends
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""Are you going out with Liam?'' ""No, we're just good friends .''
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I'm not going out with Nathan, you know - we're just friends .
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I keep telling my mother that Peter and I are just friends but she doesn't seem to believe me.
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Billy and I were just good friends , really good mates.
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But maybe he and Jane were just friends .
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Maureen and I - we thought we were just friends .
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My wife and I are just good friends .
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They were just friends , and he was fun to be with.
be just what the doctor ordered
be just/exactly so
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Everything has to be just so at Maxine's dinner parties.
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But this turned out to be just so much more Super Bowl hype.
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Flashman is just so bitter - he's blaming us, but we just wanted our money above aboard.
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I was just so furious that I swept out in high dudgeon.
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I was just so pumped up to do good.
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I went downstairs, I was just so struck by musicians and live music.
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If it was a microcap fund it would be different because there are just so many microcap stocks you can buy.
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Now, nations are just so many men like these.
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There were just so many animals around.
get/receive your (just) deserts
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Even a low-cal concoction can make us feel that we're getting our just deserts .
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From Llewelyn he would get his deserts , and be grateful for them.
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He was not a spiteful man, but he had enjoyed the sight of Spatz getting his deserts .
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Now the rich and the proud would get their just deserts .
it's (just) one of those days
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"Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days ."
it's (only/just) a matter/question of time
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But they believe it's only a matter of time before the disease crosses the county boundary.
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If he hasn't already killed somebody, then it's only a matter of time .
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They think it's only a matter of time before he breaks.
it's (only/just) human nature
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It's human nature to put off doing things you don't like to do.
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But it's human nature that people-male or female-will do what they are allowed to get away with.
it's just a thought
it's just/only/simply a question of doing sth
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Sometimes, it's simply a question of somewhere safe to go after school while parents are working.
it's only/just a matter of time
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It was only a matter of time before Lynn found out Phil's secret.
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You'll learn how to do it eventually -- it's only a matter of time.
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Your father is dying and there's nothing we can do. I'm afraid it's just a matter of time.
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But they believe it's only a matter of time before the disease crosses the county boundary.
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If he hasn't already killed somebody, then it's only a matter of time.
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They think it's only a matter of time before he breaks.
just because ...
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Anyway, you can't dismiss the experimental method just because some irrational people choose not to put the findings into practice.
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He is just because he is vulnerable and challengeable.
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I can't break it, just because he's out of the country.
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Just because you shop at the local indoor mall does not make you an expert on the retail sector of the economy.
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Perhaps it's just because you don't like her?
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So just because you can't find it through a Web search doesn't mean it's not there.
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This is not just because Republicans are determined to make it so.
just like that
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At home the bowl of the sky is just like that.
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Certainly they impute to the accused a degree of mystical malevolence just like that implied in witchcraft charges.
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Could he abandon everything now, just like that?
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How many people came to this country and bought a house just like that?
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I put my arm round him and gave him a hug just like that.
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I was on tablets for two days and then taken off, just like that.
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The pickup switching configuration is just like that of a Strat, but obviously with a fatter tone from the humbuckers.
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They stopped, just like that.
just my luck
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Just my luck ! The one vacation I take all year, and I have to get sick.
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Married, is he? Just my luck .
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Great, I thought to myself, just my luck .
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It was just my luck to have bags made of light nylon, weighing in at ten kilos in total.
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No chance, I thought, just my luck the clocks aren't working.
just now
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But the gentleman will not take no for an answer, and even tried to push past me just now .
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Her own eyes were a muddy green, and just now they were spitting fire, like a little cat.
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I myself had started something of a relationship with her just now .
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Maybe the maids would have left some of the rooms open, if there was nobody staying in them just now .
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That betraying look in her eyes in the cloakroom just now must have told him he'd won again.
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The man, whose helping hand he had just now been the recipient of, was immediately behind him.
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When I was in Marcus just now he was normal.
just the job
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A bit of companionship with fellow climbers and walkers is just the job at the end of a hard day.
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Clinique, though, say their new Electric Shave Primer is just the job .
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Computerised databases are just the job for any record storage as many of you may know.
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She should not have mentioned Mrs Skipton, must learn to do the job , just the job and no more.
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The Cajun Kings were just the job , as was John.
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This could be just the job for her - and it would generate some new income to replace what we've lost.
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To decide which one is right for you, you have to consider more than just the job you do.
just the thing/the very thing
just/all the same
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The potatoes were a little overcooked, but delicious all the same .
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He made beer the same way as his grandfather had and today it's brewed just the same way.
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My father was a Hasid but he wanted us to know the Scriptures just the same .
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Some have felt they were all the same , maybe even the Apostle John.
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The look will be different, but the content, the coverage and the crack will be just the same .
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These strips are all the same , a sort of busy evolutionary seashore.
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Trout fishing is often a great challenge, but rewarding just the same , with gorgeous colored fish and the streamside beauty.
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Well, if it's all the same to you, we would rather be the judges of that.
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Yet all the same , progress resulted.
let's just say
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"So who was she with?" "Let's just say it wasn't Ted."
let's just say (that)
may/might/could (just) as well
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And if you have to plough the field anyway, you might as well plant it at the same time.
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And we might as well get used to it and resolve to cope.
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Besides, they cost so much, you might as well get some fun out of them.
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I thought I might just as well come down to the point.
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If the traveler expects the high way to be safe and well-graded, he might as well stay at home.
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It might as well be now.
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She might as well see how the enemy behaved themselves in a place like this.
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While she was there, they might as well have added the charge of breaching the Trades Description Act.
might (just) as well
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And if you have to plough the field anyway, you might as well plant it at the same time.
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But what is unavoidable may still be undesirable, and one might as well say so.
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D.W. had come in over ocean and flown low as a drug smuggler over what might as well be called treetops.
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He might as well have gotten down on his hands and knees and begged for it.
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He said we might as well go before his sister arrived, because once she came, it would be impossible.
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I might as well have been a convert, a Gentile.
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I thought I might just as well come down to the point.
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You might as well go to a branch.
not ... just/quite the opposite
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His falsity and hollowness are not just the opposite of the true and the wholesome, but threaten to undermine it.
not just any (old) man/woman/job etc
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And a T'ang is not just any man.
only just
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As it turns out, though, one of the greatest albums in his catalog has only just been released commercially.
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However, the hard part of Operation Restore Hope may have only just begun.
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It was sparsely furnished, for Anne had only just come into her inheritance, but it was newly decorated and clean.
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She must be dreaming, but surely she had only just gone to sleep.
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She remembered that he had a knack for getting people to stop shooting, and usually only just in time.
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The great black migration from the West Side-and from the Deep South-had only just begun.
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Unemployment is still only just half of what it was seven years ago.
sb is just fooling
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Don't pay any attention to Henry. He's just fooling .
sb was (just) minding their own business
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I was just walking along, minding my own business , when this guy ran straight into me.
sb would (just) as soon
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Absorbing Costs Self-defeating techniques yield consequences that most organizations would just as soon not deal with.
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After all, he delivers oil to you and would just as soon keep doing it.
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And a lot of them would just as soon not get this junk e-mail.
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And they would just as soon I was not there.
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Fiercely individualistic, Texas would just as soon give back the Alamo as institute a state tax.
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He would as soon not go.
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The dismissal of such people would stir up controversy the president would just as soon avoid.
sth is just one of those things
that's (just) the way sth/sb is/that's (just) the way sth goes
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And that's the way he is.
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And that's the way it is again this year - everybody is happy with what I am doing.
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But they think they can run everything from Detroit and that's the way the organisation is going to be restructured.
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Even the best generals sometimes lose with this army just because that's the way it is.
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For that's the way it is for the talented twosome.
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He's always been a bit on his dignity, I suppose, but that's the way he is.
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In the end Capirossi had to do the winning himself and that's the way 1991 is going to be.
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The money we got to spend - well, that's the way it is.
that's all I need/that's just what I didn't need
wait a minute/just a minute/hold on a minute/hang on a minute
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a just and lasting peace
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a just reward
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He was the perfect choice for Emperor -- just , patient, merciful and of royal blood.
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Many of us did not feel that the court's decision was just .
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No just government would allow this kind of treatment of its own citizens.
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The Attorney General called the sentence a fair and just punishment for someone who had committed such a dreadful crime.