Example sentences of "[pers pn] can just " in BNC.
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| 1 | One student had a Citroen Visa , which I immediately assumed was the GTi version — Peugeot 205 kit in a Peugeot 104 chassis — and the sort of lukewarm hatch I can just about afford now . |
| 2 | I can just see him , waiting on the rank . ’ |
| 3 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |
| 4 | Someone upstairs is playing a record — I can just make out the thumping of the drum . |
| 5 | Marie turns to look at me , and I can just see the light shining off her eyes . |
| 6 | It 's up the side of the platform — I can just see the light over the door from where I 'm standing . |
| 7 | I 'm pretty warm so I do n't need a blanket or nothing and I can just bunch up the pavement into a pillow if I need one . |
| 8 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 9 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
| 10 | So I can just check things out ? ’ |
| 11 | I can just see the headlines — RUMMIDGE FIRM SLAMS DOOR ON RED ROBYN . |
| 12 | With a grandmother , it might be an odd domestic habit that is remembered — ‘ you know she used to polish her table legs and brass — and she used to cover 'em up after ’ — or simply her appearance : ‘ I can just see her with her white apron on , and cap ; ’ or ‘ she had a beautiful sequin coat , cape and a little sequin bonnet ; ’ or again , of a duchess , ‘ I can remember a tall gaunt woman in black — rather frightened of her . ’ |
| 13 | Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ( Crying in justified woundedness ) Oh I can just see you lyin' there five year aul' in yer bed recess with your sixteen brothers and sisters eating snotters and planning to trap our Deirdre , tie her down by fair means or foul . |
| 16 | I can just imagine it , ‘ Hey , have you heard ? |
| 17 | I can just see them : Mum with a cottage cheese salad lying uneaten on her plate — Dad in the office amid piles of unread scripts , unable to concentrate for fear that his darling ? hated ? infuriating daughter lies at the bottom of the Thames , the Severn , the Atlantic … |
| 18 | I can just see you floating into your box at the Opera , all svelte and soignée … ’ |
| 19 | I can just make out the Ridgery in the distance . |
| 20 | I can just see the Waste , or rather I think it must be the Waste , for there 's a tower there and it 's bare of trees . |
| 21 | I think I can just about manage whisky . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | ‘ If I can just see the baby . ’ |
| 24 | I can just see a little haddock at home , receiving a phone call saying he 's won a prize . |
| 25 | I can just picture you there . |
| 26 | Slachman 's stuck in traffic , but I can just about fit you in . |
| 27 | T : I can just imagine all those old rappers going — ( makes vomiting noise ) — ‘ This is hippyshit , man ’ . |
| 28 | But I can just see the Sun headline , a fitting follow up to ‘ Paddy Pants-down ’ , to wit : ‘ Is Neil A Nancy Boyo ? ’ |
| 29 | I can just make out |
| 30 | I can just remember seeing some shapeless mass of mummy of a whitish colour . |