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 .
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