Example sentences of "he [vb mod] just " in BNC.

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1 I worry about my daughter , she 's growing up in a world where things are inevitably going ’ Asked whether he may just possibly have got it all wrong , Hopkins pauses melodramatically .
2 He may just as well be a decision-maker , one who can foresee what decisions he will have to make , and what may happen as a result of them .
3 He could be working something out , but he may just be enjoying emotional relaxation and a purely sensory level of play .
4 But he may not have done another thing ; he may just have faded into obscurity if he 'd lived on . ’
5 ‘ 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ( He may just have over-estimated demand ; but we think that that is unlikely .
9 If the Pentos chairman gets his dearest wish and the net book agreement is abolished , he may just live to regret it . ’
10 If the Pentos chairman gets his dearest wish and the net book agreement is abolished , he may just live to regret it . ’
11 He may just have meant the girl , ’ pointed out Lane .
12 If he does , he may just come face to face with himself .
13 The selectors , and Gooch himself , may see how he starts the English season or , ever the realist , he may just decide to go .
14 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 .
15 But then he may not invest it , he may just consume .
16 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 .
17 Sole has retired from rugby at the age of 30 , when prop forwards such as he should just be coming to their prime .
18 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 .
19 He should just say straight out : ‘ I do n't want the city any longer , I want the country .
20 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 .
21 He should just go back and learn to draw ’ .
22 ‘ Well , everyone thinks he should just ignore it .
23 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 ?
24 ‘ What sort of a day have you had ? ’ she asked him lightly , and spent the first course and half of the second in hearing how he did n't think he was giving so much concentration to his job as he should just lately .
25 I rather think he must just have picked it up when Mr Hambro chased him away from the cave-in .
26 He must just feel like saying to everybody
27 He 'll just have me . ’
28 ‘ I thought , if I tell the driver I 'm a real archbishop and I 'll pay him the other end he 'll just say , ‘ Oh , stuff it , mate ! ' ’
29 ‘ Sometimes he 'll just lie on the settee and refuse to get off .
30 ‘ But if he gets into the Southampton match he 'll just have to cope . ’
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