Example sentences of "he [modal v] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The selectors , and Gooch himself , may see how he starts the English season or , ever the realist , he may just decide to go . |
| 2 | But then he may not invest it , he may just consume . |
| 3 | If the Pentos chairman gets his dearest wish and the net book agreement is abolished , he may just live to regret it . ’ |
| 4 | If the Pentos chairman gets his dearest wish and the net book agreement is abolished , he may just live to regret it . ’ |
| 5 | When the blacksmith decides to make some new tongs for himself , he may just look around for suitable pieces of scrap which he will then fashion into the desired tools . |
| 6 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 7 | But he may not have done another thing ; he may just have faded into obscurity if he 'd lived on . ’ |
| 8 | Okay you may not have ever seen him , he may just have been sitting in the car , then remember his colour maybe his moustache and then the type of car he had . |
| 9 | ( He may just have over-estimated demand ; but we think that that is unlikely . |
| 10 | ‘ He may just have meant the girl , ’ pointed out Lane . |
| 11 | ‘ That will remind us of what he 's had to say , and I think he may just find it acts as a spur to show him what we can do . |
| 12 | If he does , he may just come face to face with himself . |
| 13 | I think that the instructor should treat the first flight on a particular glider as if it was the first flight of the day , and on subsequent flights he should just check for full and free movement and that the surfaces are moving fully . |
| 14 | ‘ He should just go back and learn to draw ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , everyone thinks he should just ignore it . |
| 16 | Strange he should just happen to mention these artistic luminaries.A more direct hint comes when I ask him if he has influenced Government policy . |
| 17 | He should just remember that there was a God , and feel that there was , ‘ not dead and stifled but alive ’ , urging us towards more love , more life . |
| 18 | Does that yeah does th that mean that if he 's say h he 's taunted about his race he sh he should just turn the other cheek and have a stiff upper lip ? |
| 19 | He should just say straight out : ‘ I do n't want the city any longer , I want the country . |
| 20 | He must just feel like saying to everybody |
| 21 | I rather think he must just have picked it up when Mr Hambro chased him away from the cave-in . |
| 22 | If he gets fed up with it he 'll just stop and we wo n't mind . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps he 'll just give you a nice tonic . |
| 24 | ‘ If I 'm crying because someone 's been nasty to me , he 'll want to rush away and knock their block off ’ , said one woman , ‘ for anything else he 'll just sit there and look miserable and uncomfortable until I feel I 'm supposed to comfort him ’ . |
| 25 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 26 | I know but he can probably be nice like that but then he 'll just change and become all cool when he wants to be |
| 27 | You wo n't put him off really , I think he 's just got a great a , he 's not , just got a great appetite I think , he 'll just eat and eat and eat |
| 28 | Oh come on , you know him , he 'll just takes us up the woods for the hell of it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So you 'll think he 'll just flow into the next day 's |