Example sentences of "[modal v] just [vb infin] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Before leaving philosophical treatments of indexicals , we should just point to a subject of deep theoretical importance which lies well beyond the scope of this book — namely , the connection of indexical reference to the fundamentals of reference in general . |
2 | Right , well let's just think for a minute exactly what you just said , can you repeat to me roughly what you 've just said ? |
3 | Let's just move for a minute or two into wider applications , in industry . |
4 | Well let's just consider for a moments then this morning , in in some of the ways in which we can be like Pilate the first thing I see here is that Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus Christ although he had tremendous opportunities of doing otherwise . |
5 | Let's just run through a couple of the points . |
6 | ‘ Let's just wait for a while , eh ? |
7 | Group pick up , which I 'll just mention in a second , and call forwarding . |
8 | That 's so funny on the , have you seen that erm advert on John Smiths where he goes , , not me I 'll just settle for a can of John Smiths , and dandruff |
9 | ‘ I think the banks will keep it on the lane and I suppose it 'll just roll to a halt eventually . ’ |
10 | You might just get to a goal that is difficult to master , or you could find that when you are about half-way through your goals you get stuck and can go no further . |
11 | You might just pop to a corner shop to buy some chocolate and som box of matches , some sweets a magazine , a newspaper . |
12 | I could just do with a drink . ’ |
13 | ‘ I could just do with a cuppa , ’ he said brightly . |
14 | Yes I know , but surely , you know , they could just slot in a couple of like the twenty minute , fifteen minute toddler programmes or something within the day . |
15 | ‘ If I could just come in a minute — ’ |
16 | Others I 'd just throw on a cotton frock and a pair of sandals to go out shopping . ’ |
17 | It was quite pointless having a runner who saw the whole thing as a social outing and had once even sat down in a kitchen and said she 'd just rest for a minute . |
18 | it it 'd just look like a circle . |
19 | I 'd just come to a point . ’ |
20 | Well you know er , as I said , I think really an awful lot of it is in your own perception of , I mean what someone here might call emotional abuse , I would just regard as a challenge . |
21 | Go ahead , hello is Sergeant Briggs there please , if you would just hold for a minute , beep , beep , beep , beep , beep , hello this is Sergeant Briggs who 's calling ? |
22 | ‘ A woman talking about hell fire would just sound like a fishwife . |
23 | Easy connections between machinery , so that you can just plug into a socket . |
24 | They can just plug into a mind gym instead . |
25 | Yeah well if , it 's a stupid way of doing it when you 've got a boiler that 's heating up , you can just wait on a bit |