Example sentences of "[conj] i [modal v] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a good thing for you I 'm driving or I might just show you whose woman you really are . |
| 2 | ‘ Or I might just stick 'em up . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If there comes a day when I think , ‘ Jesus , I ca n't deal with this any more , it 's too much , ’ I 'll drop it or I 'll just fire everyone in the band . |
| 4 | Or I 'll just go away . " |
| 5 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 6 | Or I could just stuff them down that wrinkled old gullet . |
| 7 | I would come back into the house feeling so humiliated that I would just sit down and cry and then the baby would start crying so I had to stop . |
| 8 | The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that . |
| 9 | Well I have I did n't because I said that I would just tell them about it and then I would speak again this month and see what er , they say . |
| 10 | I feel I 've lost everything ; that I may just as well go home . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah because if I work it out I 'll just know that i it made so and so but I wo n't know that it gave off that I 'll just remember that it made like zinc chloride or something I wo n't remember |
| 12 | Oh well no I wo n't do that I 'll just drive round at five mile an hour in front of ya . |
| 13 | Finally the th county picked up its responsibility again but the damage had been done and er grass cutting never seems to have recovered in some areas on the that I 'll just try to describe in a few words . |
| 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 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Yes , so that I can just sort of say , you know , we did invite and , that might help |
| 17 | Erm , quite a lot off the top you know so that I can just brush it up |
| 18 | My mother and my best friend , both of whom believed that I could just as well have a bath at home , came with me . |
| 19 | I knew at once that I could just walk up to you and we could start talking , as if it was the most natural thing in the world . |
| 20 | You , you did promise me Mr Chairman , that I could just ask a quick question . |
| 21 | In the end she suggested that I should just come and listen , and for politeness ' sake I agreed . |
| 22 | Now I feel that I should just get on with it , do my studying , finish school , leave home , begin my ‘ future ’ . |
| 23 | I rang Transend to ask about a registered copy , but they informed me that they did n't register that game , but that I should just write out cheque for the amount a cross out the £ and pout $ . |
| 24 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 25 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 26 | Erm other than that I 'd just like to introduce the other speakers . |
| 27 | Ever since Cherith , I 've vowed that I 'd just take love as it comes — and as it goes . |
| 28 | When I saw the room , I immediately wanted to call the whole thing off , but the chap already had the cheque and I was on a hiding to nothing with my landlord so I would just have to put up with it . |
| 29 | ‘ But you know ’ , she turned to Ira Dilworth , ‘ I do n't smoke , but me 'usband does , so I 'll just keep it for him ! hope you do n't mind . |
| 30 | ‘ So I 'll just go on , then , ’ he said . |