Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [modal v] just [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I would come back into the house feeling so humiliated that I would just sit down and cry and then the baby would start crying so I had to stop .
2 Oh well no I wo n't do that I 'll just drive round at five mile an hour in front of ya .
3 I knew at once that I could just walk up to you and we could start talking , as if it was the most natural thing in the world .
4 I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on .
5 I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on .
6 Now I feel that I should just get on with it , do my studying , finish school , leave home , begin my ‘ future ’ .
7 I rang Transend to ask about a registered copy , but they informed me that they did n't register that game , but that I should just write out cheque for the amount a cross out the £ and pout $ .
8 I would often hear from my assistant who now looks after Cher , but at that time was delegated to looking after me , and she would say that she 'd just come back from the MainMan offices and the main office door was closed into DeFries 's inner sanctum and there were raised voices between him and David in there .
9 ‘ We felt that if she was going to turn on those sort of tactics we were not going to be gentlemanly about it , and that she should just get on and do the job . ’
10 It came into her mind that she should just run away , off along the waterline like the dog , and leave this nightmare situation far behind her … .
11 The only problem is that you might just carry on a little too normally .
12 I learned from him that you could just go out , and have a really good time getting out of it .
13 I was always surprised that you could cross Magdalen Bridge without having to show your papers , that you could just walk across .
14 They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person .
15 I said , Why so that you can just carry on normally ?
16 They thought that we were going straight , we and we thought so too that we would just go straight over the , through London .
17 And then adding all these up , well there 's none of them that add up that we can just add in to any of the others , so we 'll have to leave them all like that , so the answer is just a , a thousand , plus a hundred Y plus ten X , plus X Y. Now if we wanted to multiply , let's say we want to multiply a hundred and three by seventeen , that just means that X is seven , sorry X is three and Y is seven .
18 Had n't believed that they would just get down on their knees and die , heads bowed .
19 Yeah perhaps she 's got a mutual agreement that they 'll just end up perhaps getting married , I do n't know
20 ‘ We could be here for hours , ’ said Wilson , into whose tired brain had crept the thought that they could just sit down and have a little sleep until they were found .
21 Newspaper publicity always gave the impression that the school could train anyone from scratch with little or no dance experience so young readers felt that they could just turn up without an appointment and would immediately be seen by this apparently motherly woman called Jennie Tiller .
22 ‘ It 's easy to be critical by watching television and they may feel that they can just pick up where they left off .
23 It 's got a steel bolt with two steel rollers in there , so that if , even somebody tried to hacksaw their way through that it will just slide along as soon as .
24 It would extend so that it could just jump back .
25 The judge knew this man of old : he was the pit-bull of the legal profession , attacking any weak spots with devastating precision , and seeing him ended the Judge 's faint glimmer of hope that he might just get home in time for the football .
26 How dared this man think that he could just move back into her life — after five long years — and then begin treating this place as if it were his own home ?
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