Example sentences of "[noun sg] would just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 2 | Because the light would just be going off into nothing and not coming back . |
| 3 | If points on a circle were not equidistant from some fixed point , then that figure would just not be a Euclidean circle . |
| 4 | So the Glasgow Committee would just like to sign off by saying we hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a not too sober New Year . |
| 5 | A gravel cleaner would just suck it up . |
| 6 | The Defence budget would stand buying another catapult tomorrow ; my crossbow would just have to wait another week or so . |
| 7 | The Lab would just have to wait , I said to Bidwell . |
| 8 | The ironing would just have to wait ! |
| 9 | Sound would just be a waste . |
| 10 | One might therefore think that opening another slit would just increase the number of electrons hitting each point of the screen , but , because of interference , it actually decreases it in some places . |
| 11 | And sometimes Madame would just decide that we all needed a change and there 'd be paint ordered and people would come in during the day and work for a couple of days and the whole place would be done out for a party or a festival . |
| 12 | Of what use would just one of these faculties be without the others ? |
| 13 | The smoke would just rise straight up and |
| 14 | I can imagine a baby would just delighted . |
| 15 | But it could also be used to their advantage in that how that erm absolute egalitarianism would speed up the process of land reform and eliminate feudalism whereas a moderate policy would just take ages for this to happen , so |
| 16 | ( Both used to lie in baths hoping that the dirt would just leap off them . ) |
| 17 | President , Congress , Conference I know we will all welcome all the pressure that we can be brought to this government and its pursuit of policies if that 's the right world , policies that do n't have a direction would just have them from one crisis to another . |
| 18 | As as if money would just come whenever you open your mouths . |
| 19 | I could see without action my case would just be forgotten about |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps she 'll write to us , ’ Julia said , still unable to believe that her sister would just disappear . |
| 21 | The Russian felt inadequate , but was persuaded that not doing the leg would just put him further behind as the crew developed experience . |
| 22 | Because wood takes longer to burn , copper would just you would you could you would feel the heat you had if |
| 23 | You were what you were , and the world would just have to learn . |
| 24 | Of course , for serious devilry the War Bag has to go by itself , and a camera would just be a liability , but I have n't had a real threat for a couple of years , since the time some big boys in the town took to bullying me in Porteneil and ambushing me on the path . |
| 25 | cos the main environmental was er , it did it on its own , with a completely empty switchboard , no calls on five o'clock at night , everybody had gone home and the bloody thing would just sit ringing , ringing , ringing , ringing and erm |
| 26 | This amount would just be more than one year group at St Aidans . |
| 27 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 28 | Now I 'm not going into Mother tonight ; a medical lesson would just finish me . |
| 29 | I thought for a while that the information would just go on accumulating from here on in , but thank God it 's already begun dropping off . |
| 30 | At the inquiry , he agreed the tower would just peep over the tops of the trees . |