Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [modal v] just [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I would come back into the house feeling so humiliated that I would just sit down and cry and then the baby would start crying so I had to stop .
2 Well I have I did n't because I said that I would just tell them about it and then I would speak again this month and see what er , they say .
3 The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that .
4 Yeah because if I work it out I 'll just know that i it made so and so but I wo n't know that it gave off that I 'll just remember that it made like zinc chloride or something I wo n't remember
5 Oh well no I wo n't do that I 'll just drive round at five mile an hour in front of ya .
6 Finally the th county picked up its responsibility again but the damage had been done and er grass cutting never seems to have recovered in some areas on the that I 'll just try to describe in a few words .
7 John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’
8 Erm , quite a lot off the top you know so that I can just brush it up
9 At the moment I find that I can just afford my fortnightly twenty-minute flights , but in eighteen months time , when I reach the age of seventy , I wonder if I shall be able to afford £130 per year for the ‘ privilege ’ of flying ?
10 I knew at once that I could just walk up to you and we could start talking , as if it was the most natural thing in the world .
11 You , you did promise me Mr Chairman , that I could just ask a quick question .
12 I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on .
13 I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on .
14 In the end she suggested that I should just come and listen , and for politeness ' sake I agreed .
15 Now I feel that I should just get on with it , do my studying , finish school , leave home , begin my ‘ future ’ .
16 I rang Transend to ask about a registered copy , but they informed me that they did n't register that game , but that I should just write out cheque for the amount a cross out the £ and pout $ .
17 Ever since Cherith , I 've vowed that I 'd just take love as it comes — and as it goes .
18 Erm other than that I 'd just like to introduce the other speakers .
19 The two men had told Comfort that she would just love it .
20 Now that she knew Betty was here because she pitied her and not because she liked her , she felt less threatened and decided that she would just let her take over the cooking and do as she wished in the kitchen .
21 ‘ She left no clues , you see , so no one really considered that she might just have run away . ’
22 She 's not painted for so long that she 'll just have to be encouraged more and more .
23 And that she 'll just have to take a chance tonight .
24 I would often hear from my assistant who now looks after Cher , but at that time was delegated to looking after me , and she would say that she 'd just come back from the MainMan offices and the main office door was closed into DeFries 's inner sanctum and there were raised voices between him and David in there .
25 She remembered thinking , once , in a desperate moment , that she should just go to Matthew and say , I love you .
26 That she should just forget about her lessons and rush off to see your brother whenever she pleased ?
27 ‘ We felt that if she was going to turn on those sort of tactics we were not going to be gentlemanly about it , and that she should just get on and do the job . ’
28 It came into her mind that she should just run away , off along the waterline like the dog , and leave this nightmare situation far behind her … .
29 I think with erm , I I was brought up in a household where it was com , completely legitimate to admit to being depressed and that you would just have to cope , I think cope perhaps my most
30 ‘ And maybe he 's guessed I 'll put you onto him , or that you 'll just work it out for yourselves , so he 's settling old scores while he can , before they 're warned , too . ’
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