Example sentences of "they could just " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could just as easily be train spotters , standing at the end of railway platforms . |
| 2 | Christ , they could just have topped me . |
| 3 | With the help of a couple of good men and with Jean 's know-how , they could just about make it . |
| 4 | Newspaper publicity always gave the impression that the school could train anyone from scratch with little or no dance experience so young readers felt that they could just turn up without an appointment and would immediately be seen by this apparently motherly woman called Jennie Tiller . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | It is not because they are rightists ( they could just as well be leftists ) but because they want to capture the centre not for the gospel but for a ‘ Holy America ’ . |
| 7 | They could just about tolerate his seedy affair with Antonia de Sancha . |
| 8 | And they could just as easily have hopped on a train to any other part of the country . " |
| 9 | As Hazel and Fiver made their way dejectedly down the run outside the Threarah 's burrow , they could just hear , from inside , the Chief Rabbit 's voice assuming a rather sharper note , interspersed with an occasional " Yes , sir , " " No , sir . " |
| 10 | Behind , they could just discern great , powerful paws and a shaggy , black body . |
| 11 | Except that the mattress had smelt musty , and that as they lay in bed through those long cold mornings they could just see the spire of the Congregational church through the window . |
| 12 | Now if they could just do the same to the beers themselves , and improve the taste , more people might be inclined to drink them . |
| 13 | If somebody if they turn up at the normal time , I assume when though there 's you know we could leave a not a not a notice and they could just go out . |
| 14 | They said they could just hear me did n't they Meryl ? |
| 15 | So in future we hope that , if anyone needs to have an up-to-date picture of the reserves in , say , Nova Scotia , they could just click it up on screen rather than have to wade through some hefty document or wait for someone to get back to them . ’ |
| 16 | On the twelfth floor of the hotel , from which they could just get a view of the distant river , they were delighted with their prosperous-looking aunt . |
| 17 | When modern social anthropologists write about " primitive " peoples it is for want of a better vocabulary ; they could just as well be writing about " other " peoples . |
| 18 | They could just see the Maggon Mountains to the West . |
| 19 | It was always the same wherever he went — people were drawn inexorably to him , as though some of his charisma could rub off on them if they could just get close enough . |
| 20 | Some guys look as if they could be nice , but they could just as easily swing a baseball bat into someone 's face . |
| 21 | ‘ They could just follow the truck ; after all the hijackers have to stop sometime . ’ |
| 22 | They could just about remember the Store , but it did n't mean much to them . |
| 23 | I mean time of physiological difference and strength needs of their strength that they could just about fire a and he could n't even pull them back and so they you know , fine if you wan na go hunting use the boat |
| 24 | ‘ They could just walk around Oxford , could n't they , sir ? |
| 25 | Something that you 've got on display where they could just read it , pick the answer out . |
| 26 | In that case the beneficiaries would have been Muslims but they could just as easily have belonged to a different group . |
| 27 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 28 | Although an opinion poll last week suggested they could just secure the required number of seats , the tide is expected to turn against them in the course of a three-week campaign . |
| 29 | They could just . |
| 30 | They could just say no |