Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may say , ’ Eat your heart out ’ to Norman , to Peter , to William , to Austin and to others , if I may use just first names . |
| 2 | ‘ I must do just a few more menial things before I go to bed ’ or , more oddly , ‘ I was nearly run over on my menial way this morning . ’ |
| 3 | I must have just left her standing on the steps . |
| 4 | Oh that 's about the answer in the back of the book , so I must have just gone wrong on the last bit here . |
| 5 | I mean I had them in my erm handbag and I think I must have just chucked them out this morning |
| 6 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 7 | I think er I do n't know why but I must have just landed and done a s |
| 8 | Thank you all for coming , I know that it 's , it just shows how interested some of us are that you are coming in on such a nice day as this to hear Doreen Griffiths ’ The Cinderella Army ’ or the Land Army , and I must say just reading these bits up here now , I 've got lots of questions I want to ask her when she 's finished , so we 'll let her tell |
| 9 | I must seem just the same to him . |
| 10 | Oh I should suppose just grocery I should think really . |
| 11 | But I feel I should return just a moment to the matter of my father ; for it strikes me I may have given the impression earlier that I treated him rather bluntly over his declining abilities . |
| 12 | I should 've just say you 're bragging . |
| 13 | Cos he said oh I should 've just hit him there and then and I said yeah instead of fucking hanging about and pissing your mates off , you know what I mean ? |
| 14 | He goes I should 've just fucked her ! |
| 15 | You know the bit when he goes , I should 've just fucked her and She goes , what did you say ? |
| 16 | I should say just pay your own and that 's enough |
| 17 | It was funny I should have just tidied the room this day , thought Nessie as the two strangers laid Kevin on the new-made bed . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe I should have just walked her downstairs or something . |
| 19 | I should have just pressed the erase button . ’ |
| 20 | I should have just put my foot down and knocked him over . |
| 21 | I suppose I should have just gone and begged for help but Shallot has his pride . |
| 22 | I should have just done it green . |
| 23 | I did n't think anyone was aware of my leg ; I do limp , but for all they knew I might have just tripped over a plug or something . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought I might get just to chat to one of them , but instead I suddenly found a whole bleeding pack of them behind me . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll do just that , ’ the man said . |
| 26 | I 'll do just a few observations on the match . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll stay just for a while longer . |
| 28 | I 'll make just three brief points on the Social Chapter . |
| 29 | and a tidy pull oh I 'll have just a quick go of it |
| 30 | Then I 'll have just three sets . |