Example sentences of "[pers pn] could just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About a hundred and fifty yards away I could just make out three figures crossing at the corner of the field and approaching the road in our direction . |
| 2 | The drop down to half-moon Rhossili Bay below me was almost sheer , and the sea was striped with shimmering blue and white as endlessly long parallel lines of surf moved in slow motion towards the expanse of sand , on which I could just make out a few figures as tiny specks . |
| 3 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 4 | I could just make out the figure of a boy , running from the house on the right , who was joined by a group of people from the other . |
| 5 | I could just make out a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive . |
| 6 | I could just make out the spot he indicated . |
| 7 | I could just make out Tobermory , looking like an Anne Redpath painting , cubes of white and blue and primrose and Venetian red , the houses and shops strung out along the bay , tiny in the distance . |
| 8 | I took a few cautious steps forward to where , by craning , I could just make out the ghostly crescent of the beach opposite the pier . |
| 9 | Almost — but I could just make out a narrow stretch half-way over where the water flowed smooth and fast with each swell . |
| 10 | By peering hard in the same direction , I could just make out the faint flicker of a distant plane . |
| 11 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 12 | It was very dark , I could just make out the path and some trees . |
| 13 | I could just make out his face in the light from the doorway . |
| 14 | He was silent ; I could just make out his face , his staring to sea , as if Neuve Chapelle was out there , grey mud and hell , visible . |
| 15 | I could just make out that she had a little smile at the corner of her lips . |
| 16 | I could just make out part of the stonework , though most of it was under water . |
| 17 | There were open sliding glass windows at the side of the house and in the dim interior I could just make out two figures standing . |
| 18 | Turning to the north-east , I could just make out the lines of the walls of Siri , the first completely new city to be built by the Muslim conquerors in the Delhi plains . |
| 19 | Chairman I I wonder whether I could just make a sort of general statement from the department 's view before we go on to a particular issue if I may . |
| 20 | If I could just make a point about affordable housing chairman , of course the department recognizes that there is a problem of affordable housing as evidenced by minister 's statements but the view of my policy colleagues in headquarters is that this is most appropriately addresses in district wide plans and not necessarily at structure plan level . |
| 21 | If I could just make a brief point on employment . |
| 22 | I 'm sorry , if I could just make on other point . |
| 23 | If I could just make one further comment please , Paul , planning partnership . |
| 24 | But if I could just make one small correction , Chairman , at the , an error on my part . |
| 25 | If I could just make one closing remark on this particular issue . |
| 26 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 27 | ‘ I could just sink into the crowd and go unnoticed . ’ |
| 28 | I could just sense it . |
| 29 | I could just do with one . |
| 30 | ‘ I could just do with a cuppa , ’ he said brightly . |