Example sentences of "that [pers pn] could just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You , you did promise me Mr Chairman , that I could just ask a quick question . |
| 3 | Well after a while the bricks got hot enough that you could just adjust the valve to where the stove would get almost cherry red and it was a very nice fire . |
| 4 | I learned from him that you could just go out , and have a really good time getting out of it . |
| 5 | I was always surprised that you could cross Magdalen Bridge without having to show your papers , that you could just walk across . |
| 6 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It would extend so that it could just jump back . |
| 10 | How dared this man think that he could just move back into her life — after five long years — and then begin treating this place as if it were his own home ? |
| 11 | Feeling quite ill and willing himself not to look down , he stretched up and found that he could just reach the circular window . |
| 12 | Though he was a little surprised , he smiled and said with alacrity that he could just use a cup of coffee , and he lounged after her as she bustled around the kitchen . |