Example sentences of "[pers pn] could have just [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | And if anyone had noticed , maybe I could have just tossed the whole matter off in a casual way : ‘ Oh , that … it 's nothing much … ’ |
2 | I could have just bought the goddamned thing out of a coin machine in the men 's john . ’ |
3 | She could have just locked the door , walked down the back stairs and become a memory . ’ |
4 | I was upstairs with the other two , she could have just taken the other one |
5 | But er yeah , it 's , it 's I find it loses er , a little bit of interest fairly quickly erm because it 's , the main subject , the chap jumping down , I think the road was nicely shown , but perhaps if you could have just had a , a longer lens just to make it a bit more important in the picture . |
6 | We could have just done the place over and that would have been that . |
7 | We could have just put the shutters up , but they 'd have said , ‘ yeah , we got the Pakis out . ’ |
8 | He could have just got the ferry to Fishbourne and spent a fortnight at Butlins . |
9 | It takes a very special person to dedicate so much of his life to helping others when he could have just milked the lecture circuit for his own gain . |