Example sentences of "they [modal v] just [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may just want in to steal . |
| 2 | Friends of Cuba suggest they may just scrape through now that oil in commercial quantities has been found . |
| 3 | They 'll just kick up a stink and then it 'll all come out anyway . |
| 4 | Cos they will just say , they 'll just sit down and make it . |
| 5 | They 'll just drop down if you leave 'em like that , wo n't they ? ’ |
| 6 | See opportunist they , they will not have a particular house in mind , they 'll have , they 'll just walk round till this one strikes them . |
| 7 | Yeah perhaps she 's got a mutual agreement that they 'll just end up perhaps getting married , I do n't know |
| 8 | They 'll just go down |
| 9 | They 'll just go down first every day . |
| 10 | And then they 'll just hang on to them |
| 11 | ‘ Now that they ca n't get hold of cocaine they 'll just crash out . ’ |
| 12 | folk folk that know you either w might be too critical or they might just switch off because they have heard it before . |
| 13 | You know , they might just get up a little way and then some bureaucracy knocks them down again and they 're back where they started . |
| 14 | So he said that they could perhaps take a look round to see were there any secluded windows anywhere or any openings where they might just squeeze through . |
| 15 | ‘ We could be here for hours , ’ said Wilson , into whose tired brain had crept the thought that they could just sit down and have a little sleep until they were found . |
| 16 | If somebody if they turn up at the normal time , I assume when though there 's you know we could leave a not a not a notice and they could just go out . |
| 17 | Newspaper publicity always gave the impression that the school could train anyone from scratch with little or no dance experience so young readers felt that they could just turn up without an appointment and would immediately be seen by this apparently motherly woman called Jennie Tiller . |
| 18 | ‘ They 'd just come back to us to ask how to do this formula or that formula . |
| 19 | They 'd just come in , as it were , from the street , through the palaestra , the games courts and exercise ground , and into the cold room . |
| 20 | a minus twenty so it 's got to be zero , the answer , taking away a negative , it would be the same if I added , if , if it was minus twenty and I added twenty come to zero , they 'd just cancel out . |
| 21 | And are these , all these peop people you 're telling me about they would just walk around and sleep wherever they could ? |
| 22 | Angela said : ‘ We have made it clear more than once that this matter could be sorted out if they would just sit down and talk , family to family . |
| 23 | It took weeks for the other prisoners to get over that ; they would just come up and touch me . |
| 24 | You would think that they were — thankfully — drawing to a close , and then they would burst off again for another hour and you found yourself wishing they would just shut up . |
| 25 | Had n't believed that they would just get down on their knees and die , heads bowed . |
| 26 | ‘ If we prevent children dying in infancy they will just grow up to have children of their own and population will increase even faster . ’ |
| 27 | Shreeves said : ‘ I think they will just sneak in — but our medical people are definitely pleased we 've got another day . |
| 28 | I think they will just get on and get themselves she can just lay the law down . |
| 29 | He knows that as long as everybody stays level with the leading attacker they can just step up when the ball is played and the linesman 's flag will be raised . |
| 30 | They can just walk in . " |