Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] could just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly , as she followed Lucenzo across the marble floor , she caught a glimpse inside a dark , spacious room where she could just make out the shape of elegant furniture and banners hanging from a painted ceiling lit by the light from the hall . |
| 2 | Dorcas pointed to the shadows at the far end of the shed , where she could just make out something big and indistinct . |
| 3 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
| 4 | Then I imagined Lewis , boots tied round his neck , for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan , skinning her jeans off , not me , and he turned into Rodney Ritchie , at home with his parents , unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife , and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall … except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss , which is when I think I started to get confused . |
| 5 | ‘ I wish I could frame the question so you could just answer Yes or No , Phil , but I ca n't do that . ’ |
| 6 | Right good so we could just cut it into a half . |
| 7 | Er Chairman I 'm perhaps I could also suggest that we change the word suggested erm because that i i it , perhaps you are looking for something slightly stronger erm er so it could just say in accordance with paragraphs two four to two nine or the points made in paragraph two point |
| 8 | It would be so much easier Elsie if there was not this huge amount of land separating us and if I could just talk to you for a little while face to face . |
| 9 | If I could just talk to someone for a few minutes . |
| 10 | Erm if I could just stop there for a couple of minutes to er make a point about er independent taxation . |
| 11 | ‘ If I could just go back to my seat I 'll be okay . |
| 12 | ‘ If I could just go in — ’ |
| 13 | It 's always the programmer — it 's very , very seldom the computer — and if I could just go on for a minute , I feel it 's essential that young children , particularly in the primary schools , get used to using hardware and programing , so that they will see the computer as part of their normal lives , like reading and writing and anything else they use . |
| 14 | If I could just make a point about affordable housing chairman , of course the department recognizes that there is a problem of affordable housing as evidenced by minister 's statements but the view of my policy colleagues in headquarters is that this is most appropriately addresses in district wide plans and not necessarily at structure plan level . |
| 15 | If I could just make a brief point on employment . |
| 16 | I 'm sorry , if I could just make on other point . |
| 17 | If I could just make one further comment please , Paul , planning partnership . |
| 18 | But if I could just make one small correction , Chairman , at the , an error on my part . |
| 19 | If I could just make one closing remark on this particular issue . |
| 20 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 21 | erm Now , what you 've got there is a slightly later map of 1675 , which is exactly the same , the north is at the bottom , I 'm afraid the top is not very obvious , if I could just hold it up , you 've got the castle there , and you 've got it the right way up , and actually there 's some writing as well . |
| 22 | If I could just clarify this then . |
| 23 | Sorry , if I could just clarify , I was actually at the meeting of Women 's Sub , erm as was Robin in fact , and they , the Women 's Sub-Committee considered the minute of this committee , and endorsed erm , in fact , Amanda did n't write until the meeting of women 's sub , because it was being considered by them , but erm they did n't add anything substantial to what was this committee had said and they did . |
| 24 | Regeneration 's still a major problem in Leeds , if I could just give you some some rough and ready figures chairman . |
| 25 | Okay if I could just give you a brief , a small diagram , okay |
| 26 | I think when we talked to you er , when we presented the interims er , we talked about the action we would be taking given the difficult circumstances and er , if I could just remind you . |
| 27 | Now if I could just remind you of what 's happened at the Lyndford Haven er er , Synod , last March erm , the Financial Committee have suggested that we should go for a target of five hundred and ten thousand but er , this is we are not gon na be able to even start looking at the eleven and a half thousand if if er all the provinces do it for months and more and we , I think very bravely or foolishly whatever way you li , look at it , proposed that we should got to five hundred and forty thousand and it looks as thought we 're gon na end up certainly nearer to five ten than five forty . |
| 28 | and erm if I could just mention that we had eight grammar schools , there was erm , in alphabetical order they were Bec Beccles , er Beccles Sir John the Man , er Bungay Grammar which had er small boarding house . |
| 29 | Erm we set up I think a very successful service and if I could just mention a sad note here , me some members will know who was the county occupational therapy coordinator largely designed the service here and I 'm very sorry to say that er she died the other day but her service is very much a tribute to her and we do in fact have a large number of people who will want to come and work for us as OTs because it is a good service and I 'm sure that you will agree with that . |
| 30 | Erm , if I could just pass those around . |