Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can sketch 100 different hats on the spot and they may choose just 10 . |
| 2 | Even if some sounds are similar to some in your own language they still need to be practised , as they may differ just a bit , and that sometimes makes it even harder to get them sound right automatically . |
| 3 | At somewhat higher Rayleigh number theory still provides much understanding of the observations , but the experiments are less peripheral ; e.g. they may indicate just what flow patterns should be included in the theoretical analysis . |
| 4 | In that match I feel we would gain some consolationf from having 11 corners and maybe want to see the moves leading up to those … as they did nt amount to anything they may have just shown the ‘ dangerous ’ attacks . |
| 5 | say that women have been discriminated against for so long that they just have n't had the opportunities to rise up through the ranks , and if they are ever going to achieve the kind of representation that they ought to achieve just by the sheer numbers that the represent in the population , apart from the quality , and there are a lot of people who would say that women are probably rather superior erm to a lot of men at an equal level |
| 6 | They must have just forgotten |
| 7 | But if Labour 's leadership genuinely believe that their party is irrelevant to the task of developing non-sectarian politics , they should explain just how they see this task being accomplished . |
| 8 | She could n't leave them any money because all she had was an annuity that would come to an end when she died , but Mister Johnny 's got a little bit that his parents left him and Hepzibah makes some from the poultry , so they should have just enough . |
| 9 | Cos sometimes they 'll say just House of Fraser stores or |
| 10 | At the start they had over fourteen thousand people working in the park , after today 's announcement , they 'll have just over ten thousand . |
| 11 | They 'll get just one week 's pay per year of service — the state minimum . |
| 12 | Stefan Holland and Teresa Brain have been told they 'll get just two hundred and ten pounds to make the place habitable . |
| 13 | ‘ Only I think they might get just a bit mixed up . ’ |
| 14 | If Osman Abdelal and his sisters had climbed the furthest hill to the north , they might have just been able to see Mrs Zamzam 's refugee camp at Rashidiyeh . |
| 15 | They might have just threw in a bit er more from paper three . |
| 16 | You see As I said , they might have just actually cut off their nose to spite their face . |
| 17 | If they really wanted they could 've just gone straight for it . |
| 18 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 19 | I would be happier if they could sign just one more quality defender especially if they could play equally well at right back and center half . |
| 20 | He writes that , having ‘ grabbed ’ Bosnia at the Congress of Berlin in 1878 , the Habsburgs ‘ soon demonstrated that they could rule just as viciously as the Turks . ’ |
| 21 | They 'd weigh just double what they are today , more than double . |
| 22 | Erm and of initial like instead of saying them they 'd say just say em . |
| 23 | They 'd have just turned round and says , Well we ca n't help that , I 'm sorry . |
| 24 | to see the family G P in Southwold I think that got things moving because I do n't they would have done anything , they 'd have just accepted that this is the end , you know , he 's gon na die in agony . |
| 25 | If you look at the players they 've got you 'd think they 'd destroy just about anyone ( Giggs/Rush/Saunders/Hughes/Speed/ Southall/Hazelwood ( sp ? ) ) . |
| 26 | And they would lay just when and collect them eggs that night afore the gale . |
| 27 | What our staffing levels do n't allow us to do is for the care assistants to have the time they would like just to spend talking to elderly people , talking them write letters , get in touch with their relatives . |
| 28 | I grew up on movies and have always believed that if cameras had been invented before Ur and Og first trod the stone age boards then no one would ever have bothered to invent plays , they would have just leapt straight into the cinema . |
| 29 | Intriguingly , in a few cases Raper found that the G and C cells became linked to the axon they would Follow just before the turn was made . |
| 30 | This stunning defeat means that if Wigan win at Featherstone this evening they will require just one point from their remaining three matches . |