Example sentences of "[adv] they [modal v] just " in BNC.

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1 Maybe they just ca n't bear to contemplate it , or perhaps they 'll just be forced to wait .
2 Perhaps they will just want to be there anyway .
3 I mean they 'll just they 'll just have it sat there empty , it 's been empty a year now .
4 It 's a very difficult one I think in a game that probably they 'd just let you do that .
5 Oh well they 'll just have to steady down wo n't they ?
6 Well they 'll just have to wait cos I 'm not leaving my thingey in here printing !
7 Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received .
8 well they may just put it , a photograph of it in their offices , they may not put it in the paper
9 Well they 'd just get a suitable field to keep the whole lot .
10 The extraordinary thing was , you could see them coming down on to the leaves as you passed and waving their heads around , sniffing , and when you were underneath they would just drop and go straight down your neck , or on to your ears , hundreds of them .
11 You might have to face anger and disgust from your children , though with divorce and family disruption now so commonplace , maybe they 'll just shrug with boredom .
12 Sometimes they might just give you a caution .
13 And if you do feel things are overwhelming you then they may just help to bring you down again .
14 Then they 'll just take that goddam plane apart . ’
15 Yeah , well the easy way for them to assess him is have a look at his tests , and if he has n't done any , then they 'll just assess him on what he can do .
16 And then they 'll just hang on to them
17 and then they 'll just pick one out of that to go on as part of the calendar .
18 If Painkiller were to dump John Zorn 's sax squawk and turn their Marshalls to the max then they might just be edging close to what Zeni Geva and Albini have cooked up here .
19 Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning .
20 If they have n't been there they will just not be able to relate to it . ’
21 On the far bank they might just discern the silhouette of a straining horse on the tow-path ; from nearby they might just hear a discreet splosh as the eel-fishermen cast off and slipped out into the stream .
22 Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush .
23 These are the pleasant sorts of games played by friends whose friendship mainly lives by correspondence ; to anyone else they would just seem silly .
24 I do not believe , though many readers are convinced of it , that this is what finally attracts them , otherwise they might just as well do a crossword puzzle .
25 He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them .
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