Example sentences of "would [vb infin] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would think just the sound of David Markham 's name would set him off . ’ |
| 2 | Others would prefer just to fuel the war — and make a quick buck at the same time . |
| 3 | But instinctively she knew she had what she wanted — the frames that would lend just the breadth and depth she needed to complete her picture story of the couture shows , and she let her camera fall back on its strap around her neck , rubbing her aching eyes and running her fingers up under the thick fringe of dark blonde hair that barely skimmed them . |
| 4 | And one leading agent reckoned the film would make just £2 million . |
| 5 | And I would make just the same kind of point about the word " family " . |
| 6 | Cos say I was looking for angles and that would 've just been fifty up here would n't it . |
| 7 | And you would 've just dug the , the hole bigger and bigger would n't you ? |
| 8 | Well I told him that , that I was getting very tired but he would 've just worried about me coming back down you know |
| 9 | A : I would earn just £10 an hour there . |
| 10 | Both Robert Jones and Dewi Morris will be in action on the final Saturday of the Five Nations but Jones — probably only Ireland 's Simon Geoghegan has lost more ground than him in the course of the season — would need just about the game of his life to regain his lead over Morris as the other scrum-half to Gary Armstrong . |
| 11 | If the Frau would wait just one moment then . ’ |
| 12 | He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to . |
| 13 | But those watching the count late last night believed that the final tally would fall just below this figure . |
| 14 | The voters would recognise just what they had thrown away by their mad urge to vote Labour or Liberal Democrat in April 1992 — and this , plus the sight of Mr Gerald Kaufman as Foreign Secretary , would be quite enough to do the trick . |
| 15 | You 'd think Michael Barnes , OBE , hereinafter referred to as Micky Twiceover would know just exactly when he opens his Festival since he 's the Artistic Director , General Administrator , Grand Panjandrum , ( Twiceover ) and what-have-you of the Grand Opera House . |
| 16 | A lock would do just fine . |
| 17 | I should think that a piece of string would do just as well . |
| 18 | Surely heavy plastic bags would do just as well ? ’ |
| 19 | On occasions like these , friends of Burton reported , he would counter-attack by releasing his temper , tearing up the room and making it quite clear and genuinely credible that whatever they did , said or tried on he would do just whatever he wanted . |
| 20 | He would be very grateful if she would do just that . |
| 21 | A new study by two British economists shows that it would do just the opposite * . |
| 22 | When the price was raised , parents and children asked whether it was really worth it , or sandwiches would do just as well . |
| 23 | She said pretending would do just as well . |
| 24 | How could I say no ? ’ he asked rhetorically , vowing next time he would do just that . |
| 25 | That kind of knowledge could be highly dangerous , and she would do just about anything to keep it from him . |
| 26 | How could she tell him that , while women all over the country would do just about anything even to be in the same room as him , she , Shannon Lea , did n't want to touch him ? |
| 27 | This year , I am being told that the test was not whether we could deliver our unprecedented number of detailed commitments , as I had thought , but whether we would do a lot more than we said we would do just a year ago . |
| 28 | David said he would do just that . |
| 29 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
| 30 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |