Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [vb pp] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunderland should have scored just before this . |
| 2 | But if he had nothing to do with the kidnapping of that girl it seemed to be too much of a coincidence that he should have appeared just then . |
| 3 | A yachtsman has been reunited with his wife — five months after setting off on a voyage which should have lasted just four weeks . |
| 4 | It had all seemed part of the wonder : that it should have happened just this Jubilee summer . |
| 5 | To photograph the house for the news last night the cameraman must have stood just where he had stood himself , on the edge of the lawn with his back to the cedar tree . |
| 6 | TREVOR FRANCIS 'S celebration can of Coke must have tasted just a little sweeter last night . |
| 7 | Surely even the most stalwart art lover must have trembled just a little when , earlier this summer , in conjunction with the four exhibitions organised by the Whitechapel Gallery ( featuring 200-odd works ) and over 900 artists — 58 groups in 53 locations — opened their studios to the public . |
| 8 | We must have covered just about everything over those four days , from carrying boxes and travelling with birds to ferreting to keep them fed . |
| 9 | But it must have seemed just like old times . |
| 10 | Dhuoda addressed her " beautiful boy " where others might have seen just another hairy Frank . |
| 11 | The acting was almost a by-product of that and had it not been for a fortuitous advertisement in Cardiff 's Western Mail , it might have remained just that . |
| 12 | Adam Ant and Duran Duran might have worn just as much greasepaint and hairspray , but they were post-punk dandies in leather trousers , whose heterosexuality was never open to question ( ie they grabbed their crotches ) . |
| 13 | If pressed , she might have revealed just how eager she was to be gone . |
| 14 | Things might have happened just as he says . |
| 15 | Then I could have gone just one way — either way — and raked in the entire pot . |
| 16 | He , Rufus , could have got just about enough together for the petrol en route and maybe his own food . |
| 17 | The first show quality Akitas came to Britain in about 1980 and no one then could have predicted just how quickly the breed would gain popularity . |
| 18 | ‘ I should have thought , ’ said Charlotte , trapped into genuine interest and speculation , ‘ that they 'd have built just a little further from the river . |
| 19 | It 's such a lovely idea , think of all those people whose battle for life is so depressing , and then just one moment of beauty may come and illuminate the dark corners of their existence , so that they feel they may have lived just for that one thing . |
| 20 | Yet there was another statistic which may have illustrated just as vividly the gulf between the physical stature of the two sides . |
| 21 | The steady burning of gas fire jets , the bars of an electric fire , or background radiator heat , may have warmed just as efficiently , but did n't create the same level of flickering flame comfort in our drab British winters . |
| 22 | Now , if you 've got the odd spare weekend , a boat and £55,000 to spend , we may have found just the thing for you a fantasy island all of your own , and it 's up for sale right here in the heart of the Central South region . |
| 23 | He would have become just another abortion statistic , and speaks almost bitterly of having his ‘ own downtrodden minority . |
| 24 | There was a burst of male laughter from the bar , which had suddenly filled up with men wearing MCC ties ; the day 's play at Lord 's would have ended just about twenty minutes ago . |
| 25 | Mr Justice Cooke said that if a receiver failed to terminate a receivership although he had funds that would have achieved just that , then he should be treated as if his authority had ceased . |
| 26 | Funny , never would have guessed just by listening to it … |
| 27 | ‘ Cooee , would have served just as well . |
| 28 | There are other planets that would have served just as well , I imagine , in Spinward 's schemes . |
| 29 | B has acquired ownership through a different disposition ( institution as heir ; although a legacy would have done just as well ) . |
| 30 | There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ . |