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He just left.

If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.

Rather than putting off this meeting, why don't we just call it off?

A really perceptive person can figure out a whole situation with just a few clues. That's the kind of person I want you to become.

Being a good conversationalist does not just mean being a good speaker of English.

The question is whether Tom was planning to meet Mary or just met her by chance.

He just naturally avoids everything that is intense, difficult or strenuous.

Just when I was getting the hang of things, I was in a traffic accident and had to stay two months in the hospital.

Tom would often make mistakes purposely just so the teacher would notice him.

Considering all I've eaten all day is just one slice of bread, I'm not really all that hungry.

I don't need to sound like a native speaker, I just want to be able to speak fluently.

I have a hard time seeing the logic of this latest decision of his. He just isn't as sharp as he used to be.

He puts on a show of being impartial and unbiased, but I think he's just a guy with no opinion of his own.

I've been thinking about marriage a lot, and I think we should just do it.

If you raise an eyebrow, it can mean "I want to have sex with you", but also "I find that what you just said is completely idiotic."

Quantum physics is too difficult for a mere mortal to understand.

A mere repetition of other people's research cannot be called true scientific research.

mere coincidence

There is but One who is absolutely by and through himself, — namely, God; and God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

According to the "ahl al-haqq" the universe consists of only one substance, and all what we name generations and corruptions, death and life, is a mere combination or dissolution of modes.

Is it mere coincidence that "banality", when anagrammed, reads "Ban Italy"?

Mum, a mere woman surrounded by men, works in a construction company as a site foreman.

Robinson considers nature a mere object of scientific study to exploit for his own uses and pleasure.

Mere decay produces richer life.

The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity.

Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.

a mere child; the merest suggestion of criticism; it was sold for a mere £45

"We did a slow circuit of the castle, watching Thomas roll down the steep parts of the hill, feeding the ducks that by this stage in the season were so well stuffed they could barely be bothered to come over for mere bread. "

questions that cannot be answered by mere mortals

However, in any historical process, such details are mere trivialities.

Her feet were bare, as was the custom in those days.

1. He beat a bear with bare hands. Two hundred is the bare minimum. 2. She bared her back at the red carpet. He bared his soul to her.

You don't need to take off your shoes. It's too cold to go barefoot.

An infinitive without a 'to' attached is called a bare infinitive.

bare trees

She told how the dog bared its teeth before sinking them into an officer's

Confident as I am that you will not trifle with this appeal, my heart sinks and my hand trembles at the bare thought of such a possibility.

A bare word of criticism makes her nervous.

That would be twenty-seven words instead of four, and while the bare message of the longer statement would be understood, the persuasive force would be lost.

The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.

This, of course, tends to promote bribery, corruption and the creation of ‘fly-by-night' lumber companies which strip the land bare, but vanish when it comes time to re-seed.

we still don't know much beyond the bare information on the flight.

After we sold the sofa, the room looked very bare.

The Jondrettes room was dirty and evil-smelling, unlike Mariuss bare but clean room.

I just did the bare minimum – I read what I had to.