Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have [verb] [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Vivienne kept telling me , I should have stayed on just for the grant . |
| 2 | And you could n't ask for copies of all these , you 'd have to ask for just one , and that would give away your interest , too . |
| 3 | Surely in a way I 'm answering my own point , you would have to go beyond just having a set of words on paper which says we have a major exceptions policy . |
| 4 | I think we shall have to look at just the last two years . ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , it must have occurred on just one of those summer evenings she mentions , for I can recall distinctly climbing to the second landing and seeing before me a series of orange shafts from the sunset breaking the gloom of the corridor where each bedroom door stood ajar . |
| 6 | Except ‘ Three Little Birds ’ , which , although it might have sounded like just a jolly little song , was , in fact , a metaphorical indictment of the whole superpower system . |
| 7 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |