Example sentences of "[conj] he [modal v] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or he could just have wished to have an excuse for placing men near the chateau to keep us under closer observation . |
| 2 | Or he 'd just tell you ? |
| 3 | Erm I mean I 'm concerned again through his eyesight that i were we to put him as the assistant and put him on a machine , that he might just put his hand somewhere and get his hand bloody trapped or whatever with his eyesight . |
| 4 | WHILE Craig Chalmers revealed in this paper earlier this week that he might just have a chance of being put on standby for the forthcoming British Lions tour , he is now more upbeat about the prospects of that happening . |
| 5 | The judge knew this man of old : he was the pit-bull of the legal profession , attacking any weak spots with devastating precision , and seeing him ended the Judge 's faint glimmer of hope that he might just get home in time for the football . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Feeling quite ill and willing himself not to look down , he stretched up and found that he could just reach the circular window . |
| 10 | Though he was a little surprised , he smiled and said with alacrity that he could just use a cup of coffee , and he lounged after her as she bustled around the kitchen . |
| 11 | ’ Only that someone said is n't it luck for Gharr that he could just about pass as an Ardakkean if he dyed his hair … ’ |
| 12 | How dared this man think that he could just move back into her life — after five long years — and then begin treating this place as if it were his own home ? |
| 13 | If his excuse is that he will not be saying anything new , I hope that the newspapers will note that he will just be churning out the same old stuff yet again . |
| 14 | And I 'm sure a lot of times he had no idea what was going to come out , but he knew there was going to be some sort of feedback or something , so he 'd just play with it when it came . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He 's trying to make arrangements so he can just leave work whenever he has to , ’ she says . |
| 16 | because so he can just like pop in every day |
| 17 | His hobby is fishing and do-it-yourself things and he 'll just go out and buy the tools and I think , ‘ Oh that money , what I could have done with that money ! ’ |
| 18 | So I will budget and go around the markets and that , and find the best buys and he 'll just go to the best shops because it is convenient . |
| 19 | all the time , and eventually , I 'm not using that , and he 'll just start giving you the answers , and when he does start giving the answers , keep on , let him get a lot right . |
| 20 | I 'd be up as well , and he 'll just goes back to sleep and I shall stay awake going , Matthew you 've got ta get up now ! |
| 21 | And he would just have to learn , and quickly , to be glad of it . |
| 22 | She had seen him surrounded by people shouting and screaming , ‘ Go on , my son ’ , not one of them down to lose or win as much as Jack , and he 'd just stand there like a beautiful , pale statue . |
| 23 | In the later stages of Metaltronix I had a guy work for me who had a tube engineering degree , but that kind of knowledge still does n't teach you about designing — the times I asked him to design certain circuits and he 'd just stare at me ! |
| 24 | ‘ I liked the way that , we 'd be on the bandstand playing and he 'd just be walking around and playing and just look at you and kind of tip his head , you 'd play and then he 'd start playing when he wanted you to stop ! |
| 25 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 26 | Rather than somebody as I say like me who sat down there and he 'd just quote all these figures and you would n't know what the hell he was on about and just , all you , all I would understand at the end is that 's what you got ta pay . |
| 27 | Write the cheque out and he 'd just take it in . |
| 28 | So then this fellow comes to the phone , obviously his missus had entered it and he did n't have a bloody clue that she 'd gone in for it and he 'd just come home from work and er Annika Rice there , saying oh where is she ? |
| 29 | And he 'd go , and he 'd just just walk on like ! |
| 30 | A large spider 's web occupied one corner of the room near the ceiling and he could just make out the spider lurking there , quite motionless ; emulating Mr Micawber , waiting for something to turn up . |