Example sentences of "could just [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles could just picture Paul Lexington saying it , his plausible face earnestly puckered as he explained the situation to his gullible client . |
| 2 | Then I imagined Lewis , boots tied round his neck , for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan , skinning her jeans off , not me , and he turned into Rodney Ritchie , at home with his parents , unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife , and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall … except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss , which is when I think I started to get confused . |
| 3 | Well this is a marvellous new form of economics , if we could just create things and er export them without getting paid for them and it would n't us . |
| 4 | But having I could just tell councillor that the main problems which he felt he had to bring into this debate , the main problem is parking across the driveways in Harvey Goodwin Avenue , both the residents get very fed up because the parking . |
| 5 | Perhaps I could just advise members , Chairman , that erm , that the timescale for that would be fairly tight , erm , and my recollection is that when we er , we went out to consultation previously in the sphere of learning disability on an issue that I well you should know , erm , I think there were some thirteen plus consultation meetings required in , in order to , erm , to get a fair spread of , of , of opinion . |
| 6 | Talking of waffling , if I could just shift ground slightly to another issue , it 's been touched on already , and that is of jargon . |
| 7 | In the present period , then , he could just spend Y t + ( 1/1 + i ) Y t+ 1 ; , and this is shown as point Z on the graph . |
| 8 | We could just juggle things around . ’ |
| 9 | If I could just have Mr. Pertwee 's address … ’ |
| 10 | Out of the corner of his eye he could just see Dan Ashton , the road-gang foreman and union representative . |
| 11 | He could just see boxes , litter blowing in the wind and rats scavenging for food . |
| 12 | We could just see Lake Zwai and beyond it a wall of mountains on the far side of the Rift Valley . |
| 13 | She could just see Roman 's car and she was blinded by a rush of tears as she realised she would never again sit in it by his side . |
| 14 | He could just see Hasan , sitting , as usual , quite still , his hands resting lightly on the desk in front of him . |
| 15 | I mean there 's times I could just take Billy and just but then you have to think , no . |
| 16 | On page 13 MARY BAILEY already has the cichlids — but if she could just get hold of a six foot tank … |
| 17 | If you could just get hold of say , the rainbow |
| 18 | There 's no point in me doing it I mean if I could just hear Ben going ah ah ah |
| 19 | I was sitting on a chair near the door , and I could just hear Greta Ross 's voice speaking on the phone . |
| 20 | I could just hear Mr Rhys saying , Run away . |
| 21 | well he could just say Geoffrey Thomas and , and adopt it , that is his name any way |
| 22 | Oh no no leave , leave that erm you could just write sweets and how much would , just keep the figures underneath each other cos it makes it easier to follow . |
| 23 | Oh , he could just imagine Philip 's display of outraged innocence and then the letter would come from the Pope . |
| 24 | She could just imagine Kelly 's horror if she knew . |
| 25 | Besides , he could just imagine Cashman 's fury if he discovered that Cindy had been staying unchaperoned with Matthew . |
| 26 | We could just put manager could n't we ? |