Example sentences of "have just [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You could have just packed up and walked away , ’ Matilda said . |
2 | It must have just lurched into life . |
3 | It must have just lurched into life out of a great trodden stillness of dust and damp . |
4 | They ca n't have just turfed you out ? |
5 | A lot of people would have just kept it , that thirty five thousand , nothing else but you went in , you picked up the R N V R. |
6 | I did n't think anyone was aware of my leg ; I do limp , but for all they knew I might have just tripped over a plug or something . |
7 | Well he should have just zoomed off ! |
8 | AD 10 at this particular place ; it seems to have had a brief existence ; it may have been a Political embarrassment to Cunobelinus at some stage in his early career , or the traders may have just moved elsewhere . |
9 | personally , I 'd have thought that anyone who heard a gunshot round our manor would have just moved away from the window and kept his head down , but I 've got to accept that someone may have phoned . |
10 | Well I 'm gla glad she 's getting something done about it now cos you and she 'd just been left , sh er , had n't been persuaded she 'd have just let it go on and on and on would n't |
11 | We could have just collected all the cards up , put them in the middle of the car park and all just stood over them . |
12 | In a similar way , ‘ mat ’ might be a neutral word for you — unless , perhaps , you are a member of the Islamic faith when it may be associated with your religious observances , or ( at a lower level ) you may have just lost a great deal of money in an investment in floor coverings ! |
13 | I mean I had them in my erm handbag and I think I must have just chucked them out this morning |
14 | ‘ He must have just gone over the fields . ’ |
15 | ‘ He would never have just gone off , ’ said Keith 's father , driving instructor Graham Lockyer , 45 , of Stoneleigh , near Epsom , Surrey . |
16 | I 'd have just gone third but Nora looked ahead . |
17 | I suppose I should have just gone and begged for help but Shallot has his pride . |
18 | Oh that 's about the answer in the back of the book , so I must have just gone wrong on the last bit here . |
19 | I should have just pressed the erase button . ’ |
20 | No , I would have done it exactly the same , I would have just hoped that I would have been as lucky as I have been . |
21 | Chap might have just set the bomb and been taken unawares when it went off a bit early . |
22 | By the time we finish with it we shall have just scratched the surface of the subject . |
23 | Should have just stirred it in . |
24 | What I would like to know is : what damage is the soot doing to my fish and do I have just cause to go to the council to get something done about it ? |
25 | All the facts of the case will be fresh in his mind and he will have just heard the mitigation of counsel . |
26 | Then Mendez , who must have just crossed the street , was standing there . |
27 | We could have just done the place over and that would have been that . |
28 | He moved with incredible speed , seizing her by the shoulders and propelling her towards the closed door , a hard violence etching the bones of his face into a mask that would have just done justice to a Viking warrior at his most rapacious . |
29 | When we did all work together , all the different pieces worked together , and you could just have a card each and you could have just done it that way . |
30 | Could have just done with tomorrow in . |