Example sentences of "that [pers pn] can just " in BNC.
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| 1 | John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’ |
| 2 | At the moment I find that I can just afford my fortnightly twenty-minute flights , but in eighteen months time , when I reach the age of seventy , I wonder if I shall be able to afford £130 per year for the ‘ privilege ’ of flying ? |
| 3 | Yes , so that I can just sort of say , you know , we did invite and , that might help |
| 4 | Erm , quite a lot off the top you know so that I can just brush it up |
| 5 | You think at first that you have no choice , that it 's not up to you to decide on things like boyfriends — he 's sexy or he 's ugly — that you can just forget it . |
| 6 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 7 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 8 | heat sealing one that you can just run things through and they come out neatly sealed in acetate and waterproof like . |
| 9 | I said , Why so that you can just carry on normally ? |
| 10 | It does n't matter how small your primordial lung is , there must be some time out of water that you can just endure with the lung , which is a little bit longer than you could have endured without the lung . |
| 11 | there 's something that you can just |
| 12 | Oh yeah I , I I , I really think that you can just go and buy driving licences over the counter just like that . |
| 13 | Easy connections between machinery , so that you can just plug into a socket . |
| 14 | And then adding all these up , well there 's none of them that add up that we can just add in to any of the others , so we 'll have to leave them all like that , so the answer is just a , a thousand , plus a hundred Y plus ten X , plus X Y. Now if we wanted to multiply , let's say we want to multiply a hundred and three by seventeen , that just means that X is seven , sorry X is three and Y is seven . |
| 15 | I 'll borrow my brother 's Lambretta so that we can just sit for a whole hour and then I 'll drive you home . |
| 16 | In other words , the most likely occasions for associative use of the word to qualify what is in fact a performance from the professional acrobat 's repertoire — as when we are confronted by the sight of a lady standing on a man 's shoulders and juggling with Indian clubs — would be occasions when it is very likely that we can just as well describe the actions as acrobatic in their own right ; and on the other hand , ascriptive use of the word is likely to be rather rare except , precisely , in those circumstances where professional acrobats form part of the context , so that an associative use would be equally justified . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's easy to be critical by watching television and they may feel that they can just pick up where they left off . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ It amazes me that they can just stand on the street . ’ |