Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We found you ca n't just lay out the store like a supermarket , ’ Mr Murray said . |
| 2 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought we 'd better just have a quiet word together before we go down and see the kids on the beach , ’ Ben was saying as Carole bustled back into the room , carrying a tray laden with plates of cakes and biscuits . |
| 4 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 5 | ‘ I said you could n't just give them tea and biscuits , ’ he says . |
| 6 | and erm , and then every time the poor women went to get off stage he says oh Joan you ca n't go , come here , let's , he said we ca n't just give you that so he , he called her back and they bought give her a rabbit |
| 7 | On the other hand , she supposed she could n't just ignore it . |