Example sentences of "might just " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do n't make up your mind soon I might just break it up . |
| 2 | And that time might just be a drink or a coffee — as always . |
| 3 | Lucy was full of her holiday and an artists ' colony where Jeremy might just settle . |
| 4 | I might just throw a total number . |
| 5 | A desert , Menzies thought , a wilderness where you might just manage to survive for forty days and forty nights , especially if there was an angel at hand to minister to you . |
| 6 | Or , ’ she leans forward but only the beautiful hair shines , ‘ I might just buy a bomb after all — ’ |
| 7 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 8 | We do n't make excuses for her , she 's too tough for that , anyway if Seles watched Steffi a bit more she might just be able to learn how to lob a ball and hold a racket properly . |
| 9 | So a swift injection of logic might just save us embarrassing ourselves any more . |
| 10 | That picture hanging over your fireplace might just be worth more than your whole house . |
| 11 | In Leeds , local councillors have been sheepish about releasing plans to local people for what might just prove to be one of the most inspired and humane post-war city centre redevelopments masterminded by the architects Terry Farrell and Rob Krier for the Dutch developer MAB . |
| 12 | He might just as well have said : ‘ It 's all very well asking for more money for the railways , but if the volume of rail freight were doubled , it would still be only a mere 16 per cent of the rail-and-road total . ’ |
| 13 | Only Chapman lacked any easily identifiable and stereotypical presence ( his cantankerous military type , who would interrupt the more outrageous sketches with a testy ‘ this is silly ! ’ , might just as well , or even better , have been played by Cleese ) . |
| 14 | It is a widely held prejudice that the closest boxing gets to Art is that the guy who holds the towels at ringside might just be called that . |
| 15 | Those who sold their diesels after 50,000 miles or so might just as well have bought a petrol vehicle . |
| 16 | Then , Poland might just surprise themselves and a crowd expected to fill only a quarter of the 72,000-capacity stadium . |
| 17 | The finales to both Acts are effectively concerts , the sort of agreeably naff rock'n'roll revival that might just about pass muster as a Capital Gold one-nighter down the Hammersmith Palais . |
| 18 | National Savings income bonds might just be worth hanging on to at 11.75 per cent if you are a non-taxpayer . |
| 19 | If you all get on well and are prepared to make the same sacrifices to succeed , you might just be ‘ the right stuff ’ . |
| 20 | Smash Hits will want to know about your make-up or your boxer shorts , Melody Maker leans towards aesthetics and primal therapy and the local Argus might just want to know a few biographical details and where your next gig is . |
| 21 | We might just as well ask why , when we try to recall visually some period in the past , we find in our memory just the few meagre arbitrarily chosen set of snapshots that we do find there , the faded poor souvenirs of passionate moments . |
| 22 | If I saw an Indian girl being beaten up , I might just watch or walk away . |
| 23 | Burden said Mrs. Fanshawe might just recall why her husband 's Jaguar had skidded and overturned on the empty fast lane of the twin track road , but he doubted it . |
| 24 | ‘ It might just help . |
| 25 | If I get too tired I might just have a lie down and have a little kip . |
| 26 | • If you feel tired when it is time to get up — indeed , you might just be getting off to sleep ! — do not stay in bed , but get up . |
| 27 | A lion which at the beginning of the book seems as though it might just be an escaped animal from a nearby zoo turns out to be the great Lion of Strength . |
| 28 | If you are very speedy , you might just catch Norrie Pope of Hadspen Nursery demonstrating horticultural propagation at Kiftsgate ( seen below ) on 27 February , or James Compton ( ex-Chelsea Physic Garden ) growing recondite plants there on 28 February . |
| 29 | She looked so competent and self-assured , so hard , so distant from his own thought and feeling that she might just as well have been a stranger , passing by without a glance in the street . |
| 30 | Smarten up your act or we might just stop buying British , as the Europeans take over our high streets offering us fashions with a much better image , manufactured to a much higher standard . |