Example sentences of "just [vb infin] [vb pp] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
2 | All those wide leaps and difiicult intervals in the Mozart could just have influenced his writing of the " Embroidery " Aria . |
3 | He was filmed prancing round the forecourt like a wayward member of a modern dance troupe ; the witnesses in the passing cars would n't just have noticed his approach , they would probably have pulled up to watch , so bizarre and entertaining were his surreptitious motions . |
4 | People would just have shrugged their shoulders . |
5 | It would just have altered my level of safety and I would have forgotten the route completely by now . |
6 | Telling her the truth about my feelings , or rather the lack of them , would just have made our life together even more intolerable . ’ |
7 | In normal circumstances the men would just have forced their way in and relieved him of the weapon . |
8 | ‘ The kinema might just have had its own generator . ’ |
9 | If there 'd been any more trouble , we would just have drawn our staffs and knocked all hell out of them . |