Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] would just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I thought I 'd just spend my days messing around with nothing to do , ’ says that 17-year-old . |
| 32 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 33 | " Excuse me , Mrs James , I 'm Gordon 's mother , I thought I 'd just look in , as I have n't had the pleasure of meeting you . |
| 34 | Gloria Estefan at the moment , so I thought I 'd just get him the got a couple of records LP 's or whatever you call them now . |
| 35 | yes , I thought I 'd just nip in , let you know I 'm still alive |
| 36 | " I hope you do n't mind me coming up — I thought I 'd just come and see how you were , and perhaps sit and chat with you for a while " |
| 37 | but I 'm not sure what colour to do yet , and I had a bit of spare , there 's a girl who I work with who 's pregnant , so I thought I 'd just knit what wool I got |
| 38 | Before we erm before I came out today I was actually talking to some of the staff at Pembroke College and mindful of coming on her I thought I 'd just ask them what they thought |
| 39 | I 'd hoped she 'd just pick me up and we 'd be on our way , but Ash had n't seen Aunt Ilsa for a long time and insisted on exchanging more than just pleasantries with her and Mr G. |
| 40 | ‘ When we started off it was meant to be a serious underground label and we thought we 'd just do a couple of thousand . |
| 41 | ‘ Well , Catherine and I thought we 'd just walk to the Lintons ’ house . |
| 42 | We never fought when we were engaged , and I thought we 'd just get married and have our own little home , I thought the bills would get paid and we 'd be closer than we were before . |
| 43 | Well , we were n't having that , so we stood around , we said ‘ Well , we thought we 'd just wait around a little bit , you know , just in case they might want to say goodbye to us . ’ |
| 44 | We thought we 'd just come back up and wait for it , have a little more fun . ’ |
| 45 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 46 | My dad was once testing me on my biology and we came up to these films and the subject of drugs and I said just , you know , just as a joke and I thought he would just laugh it off , I said have you done any ? |
| 47 | I thought he would just pay up and then take her home . |
| 48 | We thought he would just get like a , a community service |
| 49 | I mean , you 'd think he 'd just have a few enough to make a pie or a crumble |
| 50 | And strict interpretation of the ten miles and Mr reminded me would just pinch in a little bit erm of the of the West Yorkshire greenbelt . |
| 51 | I think I would just go up to red |
| 52 | I think I would just like to draw your attention to one or two erm items in the report |
| 53 | ‘ And thanks , but I think I 'd just bawl my eyes out all over you . |
| 54 | Sometimes I think I 'd just love to be alone with a nice book to read and a carol service on the wireless ! |
| 55 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 56 | I think I 'd just like to add that I think that this could possibly be a very big piece of work . |
| 57 | Wednesday , I 'd got Michael outside in the pushchair , coat on and I think I 'd just come down from the loo and I saw the car pull up I quickly ran and got me coat on oh I , I 'll come with you she said , so she come shopping with me . |
| 58 | So I think we 'd just stay here and ourself . |
| 59 | I 've seen them , but I mean if , if they saw anything , I think they 'd just turn a blind eye to most of it . |
| 60 | The old Oliver would n't have had any … trouble like that , and if he did he 'd just have danced away from it . |