Example sentences of "think she [modal v] just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She thinks she can just waltz in and have her photograph taken now . ’ |
2 | If Diana thinks she can just try to have a normal Christmas without the boys she is going to have a very miserable day . ’ |
3 | Why had she thought she could just walk away ? |
4 | Minutes after , she thought she might just live . |
5 | The notion that Pretty Polly was simply beaten by a better horse at the distance on the day was well down the list of possible explanations for her defeat , and George Lambton aired the widely held view that jockeyship had proved the decisive factor : Bachelor 's Button ‘ was a sterling good horse , especially at Ascot , but he was not a Persimmon , and if a real good jockey had been on Pretty Polly I think she might just have scrambled home . ’ |
6 | ‘ Perhaps even that is preferable to thinking she could just disappear and let us think she was dead . ’ |