Example sentences of "[vb past] he [modal v] just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagined he could just sit down , perhaps at the typewriter to which he had recourse even for poetry , and produce the requisite text . |
| 2 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | I thought he would just pay up and then take her home . |
| 7 | We thought he would just get like a , a community service |
| 8 | The old Oliver would n't have had any … trouble like that , and if he did he 'd just have danced away from it . |
| 9 | Dr Foley said he 'd just go in and see how that child was in casualty before he left . |
| 10 | 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 . |