Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change your outlook P.R.S. or ‘ driving ’ a 737 may remain just a dream . |
| 2 | Until the technology becomes cheaper and more widespread many potential applications areas may remain just that . |
| 3 | Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just . |
| 4 | A pattern need not cover the whole board ; thus in Os & Xs , a pattern may cover just a row , or just a diagonal . |
| 5 | Although PAS is a commercial business , Bill and Kath both have a soft spot for museums and collectors alike , and in the past have supplied , at reasonable prices , parts to large museums like the Imperial War Museum at Duxford , and to ‘ one man collections ’ who may want just a small item to complete a cockpit panel etc . |
| 6 | If it is warm enough for the patient to sit in the garden , he may enjoy just watching all the garden life . |
| 7 | But if Labour 's leadership genuinely believe that their party is irrelevant to the task of developing non-sectarian politics , they should explain just how they see this task being accomplished . |
| 8 | You should 've just buggered off . ’ |
| 9 | I should 've just say you 're bragging . |
| 10 | Erm .. you know you should 've nipped that in the bud straight away rather than saying yeah we 'll put it in the post , we can do that , you should 've just said you know well I 'll bring it all along and gone from there . |
| 11 | I think we 're just gon na have to let him moan I would n't mind , but until last weekend , he never give a dickie bird about going to sleep I think it was that came in and set him off she should 've just left him on to it instead of trying to do it herself |
| 12 | Cos he said oh I should 've just hit him there and then and I said yeah instead of fucking hanging about and pissing your mates off , you know what I mean ? |
| 13 | He goes I should 've just fucked her ! |
| 14 | You know the bit when he goes , I should 've just fucked her and She goes , what did you say ? |
| 15 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 16 | The modern woman should know just how to disarm suspicion with a floppy silk collar , how to imply kindliness with a tasteful floral print , or intimidate with a well-placed lapel . |
| 17 | Control of your performance is achieved by the combination of attitude and power , and it is essential that you should know just what the attitude and power is — in various configurations — for every performance you might need to set up in the aircraft you normally fly . |
| 18 | By the end of the 1970s , it seemed clear to me that if any cellular or biochemical process was to be regarded as forming part of some type of memorial code , it must show just these features that the drug studies could not readily provide , of being both necessary and sufficient to account for the memory . |
| 19 | ‘ I must do just a few more menial things before I go to bed ’ or , more oddly , ‘ I was nearly run over on my menial way this morning . ’ |
| 20 | But one must recognize that whatever system one puts in has only got a limited life before it becomes irrelevant , and if the payment is for achievement it must do just that . |
| 21 | I believed we should do just that . |
| 22 | It is full of ideas to try out and everyone should do just as it recommends . |
| 23 | Dana thought everyone should do just as she wanted , and why not ? |
| 24 | ‘ But maybe we should do just that — ’ |
| 25 | Chairs should look just as good for occasional seating as for dining . |
| 26 | So court dominates St Aldate 's throughout the war , and I think therefore we should spend just a little time looking at the people involved , erm but not too much . |
| 27 | When in working position , the brushes should run just above the needles and immediately in front of the sinkers . |
| 28 | ‘ A battlefield must look just like that . |
| 29 | It must sound just like a buzz . ’ |
| 30 | It is unfortunate , therefore , that doubts about the extent to which its character has changed should occur just as Germany has chosen to abandon one of its strongest symbols of guilt , its constitutional right to asylum . |