Example sentences of "[verb] he [modal v] just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect he 'll just weep for joy when I tell him , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I imagined he could just sit down , perhaps at the typewriter to which he had recourse even for poetry , and produce the requisite text . |
| 3 | ‘ But if he gets into the Southampton match he 'll just have to cope . ’ |
| 4 | But the way he 's going he could just end up as the next Vinnie Jones . |
| 5 | ‘ No — yes — it is n't important , ’ she muttered , wishing he would just go away . |
| 6 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 7 | He touched this leather , just brushing it with the tip of his soft hen feather , and it was drawn away in angular folds like bat-wings , and beyond a little dark door lay open into a tiny hole , into which he thought he might just manage to put his shoulders . |
| 8 | Nobody wanted to stroke a Gnome , except perhaps another Gnome , He thought he might just have a word with Caspar to see if Fenella could be brought along to his , Inchbad 's , bed that very night . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | I thought he would just pay up and then take her home . |
| 11 | We thought he would just get like a , a community service |
| 12 | So you 'll think he 'll just flow into the next day 's |
| 13 | I mean , you 'd think he 'd just have a few enough to make a pie or a crumble |
| 14 | ‘ If he does n't eat he 'll just get thinner and thinner and who ever heard of a small , thin dinosaur ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , everyone thinks he should just ignore it . |
| 16 | ‘ He thinks he can just impose it . |
| 17 | I think he 'll just crash at our house . |
| 18 | ‘ That will remind us of what he 's had to say , and I think he may just find it acts as a spur to show him what we can do . |
| 19 | I rather think he must just have picked it up when Mr Hambro chased him away from the cave-in . |
| 20 | The old Oliver would n't have had any … trouble like that , and if he did he 'd just have danced away from it . |
| 21 | I wish he would just phone or write a letter to say he was all right . |
| 22 | Sometimes I wish he 'd just pounce . |
| 23 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ she said to Brenda , ‘ I wish he 'd just stop . ’ |
| 24 | He admits he might just prefer a boy but does n't really care ‘ as long as everything 's all right . ’ |
| 25 | Dr Foley said he 'd just go in and see how that child was in casualty before he left . |
| 26 | He said he 'd just come back from Amsterdam and he had tried some and said it was great and did I know where he could get some . |
| 27 | Well I should ima would imagine he 'd just say well in this day and age the banks are just charging him so much he just finds |
| 28 | It was terrible , I just sat in the house all day and when my husband was n't working he 'd just scream at me and the kids would be screaming and he 'd be hitting them . " |