Example sentences of "could just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles could just picture Paul Lexington saying it , his plausible face earnestly puckered as he explained the situation to his gullible client . |
| 2 | And we could just hev a lock o ’ goat 's cheese . ’ |
| 3 | um right I think I need you to sign it actually so if you could just sign here |
| 4 | If I could just reach out and touch your face … |
| 5 | Maddison headed wide from one of his crosses and neither Shearer nor Maddison could just reach another . |
| 6 | Feeling quite ill and willing himself not to look down , he stretched up and found that he could just reach the circular window . |
| 7 | If he could just reach it … |
| 8 | If you could just jot down a few ideas that . |
| 9 | It would not be so bad if I could just stand up , read my poems and leave , but that was apparently unthinkable . |
| 10 | Well , she might be half-English herself , but there was no way she could just stand by and watch . |
| 11 | Then I imagined Lewis , boots tied round his neck , for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan , skinning her jeans off , not me , and he turned into Rodney Ritchie , at home with his parents , unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife , and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall … except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss , which is when I think I started to get confused . |
| 12 | Sometimes I will have abandoned a painting , got really tired of it and feel it 's not getting anywhere , and you will come and make some remark that makes me look at it again and think : oh yes , I could just pull that one together . |
| 13 | Yes Chair , and I could just comment on the , on the consultation process particularly in relation to potential home closures and to the charges affecting people with learning disability . |
| 14 | You could just shorten them And |
| 15 | We could just sit back and collect rents from an ever-decreasing number of tenants . |
| 16 | The rest of us could just sit and twiddle our thumbs and drink iced coffee . |
| 17 | But I found I could just sit down and play by ear . |
| 18 | ‘ We could be here for hours , ’ said Wilson , into whose tired brain had crept the thought that they could just sit down and have a little sleep until they were found . |
| 19 | I remember that one of us , I can not recall which , made the cynical remark that what we really wanted was a similar type of aircraft to the one that had crashed , in which the auto-pilot could be connected up with the flight recorder — then we investigators could just sit and watch the accident happen all over again . |
| 20 | Back in Hinterzarten there are festivals , spa concerts , guided walking tours , tennis classes , canoeing and mountain biking — or you could just sit in the company of delicious pastries at one of the peaceful cafés . |
| 21 | I imagined he could just sit down , perhaps at the typewriter to which he had recourse even for poetry , and produce the requisite text . |
| 22 | The house and land could just sit there and Monsieur Lemarchand 's mother could sit wherever she was and wait . |
| 23 | How he could just sit there in that silence was the hardest thing I have ever tried to figure out . |
| 24 | Well he does n't even need to say anything at all actually you could just sit down , erm and start to write a poem about what he imagines . |
| 25 | you have to go and my dad where where it was just clean and you could just sit on it but nowhere Sarah 's side . |
| 26 | If only she could just go home , hide away and never have to see anyone again — but she had promised to stick with Paula and there would be all kinds of awkward questions and recriminations if she arrived home alone . |
| 27 | I learned from him that you could just go out , and have a really good time getting out of it . |
| 28 | If we said , like , if we , every second month say or every third month , then we , we knew we were going to have a speaker , we could the time before we could then do the business more thoroughly and carefully so that the month of the speaker we could just go through it very quickly . |
| 29 | I saw that someone like Richard Pryor could just go out on stage and talk about what it was like to be Richard Pryor . |
| 30 | Even though I 'm not one to go out , some days you wish you did n't have someone dependent on you and could just go out and about . |