Example sentences of "could [vb infin] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they really wanted they could 've just gone straight for it . |
| 2 | ‘ You could 've just hidden it , ’ said Betty . |
| 3 | So they kept him in for a cat instead , but Jessie wanted a , then Jessie , she could 've just love a fluffy white , so . |
| 4 | And then over the page it actually then , puts through gives us the quite nicely , erm a document that we could use just to send out and and do . |
| 5 | Ronni could have just said nothing . |
| 6 | He could have just said goodbye . |
| 7 | Well , she could have just said oh well you can borrow some they 're on sh shelf in the maths room . |
| 8 | ‘ We could have just announced that free tickets were available at the door but after talking to the police about it we decided that was a bad idea . |
| 9 | If you could have just seen yourself then , you leapt up |
| 10 | We could have just collected all the cards up , put them in the middle of the car park and all just stood over them . |
| 11 | And if anyone had noticed , maybe I could have just tossed the whole matter off in a casual way : ‘ Oh , that … it 's nothing much … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You could have just packed up and walked away , ’ Matilda said . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not married — my sister Berenice is my only relative , but I 'm intrigued by your interest , though you could have just asked me instead of getting angry . ’ |
| 14 | We could have just done the place over and that would have been that . |
| 15 | When we did all work together , all the different pieces worked together , and you could just have a card each and you could have just done it that way . |
| 16 | Could have just done with tomorrow in . |
| 17 | Ah but you know you could have just done that little trick , you know . |
| 18 | You could have just turned round and had a look . |
| 19 | There was no screws to stop violence and fighting and all that , you could have just killed somebody . |
| 20 | She could have just locked the door , walked down the back stairs and become a memory . ’ |
| 21 | It takes a very special person to dedicate so much of his life to helping others when he could have just milked the lecture circuit for his own gain . |
| 22 | She could have just nodded and turned away . |
| 23 | But er yeah , it 's , it 's I find it loses er , a little bit of interest fairly quickly erm because it 's , the main subject , the chap jumping down , I think the road was nicely shown , but perhaps if you could have just had a , a longer lens just to make it a bit more important in the picture . |
| 24 | She could have just mind . |
| 25 | ‘ And I do n't see how we could have just driven around in a circle . |
| 26 | I could have just bought the goddamned thing out of a coin machine in the men 's john . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He could have just taken off . ’ |
| 28 | I was upstairs with the other two , she could have just taken the other one |
| 29 | He could have just got the ferry to Fishbourne and spent a fortnight at Butlins . |
| 30 | You could have just planted them there . ’ |