Example sentences of "he would just " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would just put headphones on and close his eyes . |
| 2 | He would just sprint himself to a standstill in a couple of hundred metres . |
| 3 | ( Dana would never dream of doing such a thing — he would just take off into the void and somehow find his way around . ) |
| 4 | One ex-minister recalls : ‘ He would just say , ‘ if I give in to you , I will have to give in to everybody ’ , and you knew that was that . ’ |
| 5 | He would just have to take the rope and chair together . |
| 6 | ‘ He would just get annoyed , ’ explained Endill . |
| 7 | He warned me that if I told anyone about it , he would just deny it outright . |
| 8 | He would just do it if it was right and that , in the end , was what got him into trouble . ’ |
| 9 | But he was not too worried ; he had had enough of worry for one morning ; if it came to the worst he would just report it stolen . |
| 10 | He would just say that they evoked a great warmth in him . |
| 11 | ‘ He would just sit there on a chair and laugh to himself . |
| 12 | Lilly Foley wondered would he fall in love easily , or did the rugby take so much time that he would just be satisfied with the distant adulation of the girls who watched and cheered the games . |
| 13 | He had given up his Saturday job in the supermarket some time back , so today he would just drive and drive , drifting along the miles of highway toward Edmonton . |
| 14 | He would just stare and say , whatever do you want to drag that up for ? |
| 15 | ‘ If we tried to stop him doing it he would just take it up again when he was older . |
| 16 | He would just make me go and wipe it all off . |
| 17 | I thought he would just pay up and then take her home . |
| 18 | He would just ease up there and tap out his slow old rhythm with his feet — one leg knocking out quarter notes , the other eighths . |
| 19 | And sometimes he would just sink below the tune , beyond the words . |
| 20 | Well , he would just have to wait . |
| 21 | But he would just force her . ’ |
| 22 | He never tried to wake her , instead he would just stand and watch and pray that the angels had in fact gathered her and justice had been done . |
| 23 | He would just walk on , holding her hand and letting her lead him , turning his head a bit so she would n't see his closed eyes and keeping the sun on his left cheek as an additional guide . |
| 24 | He would just have to play along for a while and wait for an opportunity . |
| 25 | He would just gently let me know his opinion . |
| 26 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 27 | If I was lucky , Gav would be so shocked at the very idea I had had carnal knowledge of an aunt — even one of the not-really-an-aunt variety — that he would just pretend it had n't happened . |
| 28 | At parties he would just quietly leave when nobody was watching him , so that only much later would anybody wonder where he was . |
| 29 | His officials were talking about " the man who came to dinner " and making it clear that he would just have to go before the Islamic summit that was scheduled to meet in Morocco in April . |
| 30 | If Bernard was busy with flying lessons then she could be left in peace to get on with her work ; once he was back , if he wanted her to go somewhere with him , he would just say ‘ Come on Laura , we 're going , ’ and even if she were in the middle of a meeting , she would put away what she was doing and go . |