Example sentences of "was just [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Maybe we will find out next year if it was just beginners luck .
2 ‘ And they said they was just farmers , like us , ’ mused Jonadab , as they rode at a walk through the high arched entrance and into the stable-yard .
3 David was just hours from joining the Royal Engineers ( ‘ I 'd passed the medicals and everything ’ ) when Pool manager Billy Horner offered full time terms .
4 She was n't a proper girlfriend or nothing — we was just mates like .
5 And that was just potatoes and eggs was n't it ?
6 It was just stories in one or two of the papers , the Peronista journals mainly . ’
7 Cos it was just boxes of wallpaper
8 No it 's not full , it was just bits and bobs .
9 ‘ When you consider the players on the pitch today and their ability , he was just miles in front , ’ said the manager .
10 All the way to the horizon in the last light , the sea was just degrees of gray , rolling and frothy on the surface .
11 For it was just weeks after a similar cruise with the Romseys and their children last year that the couple 's daughter Leonora , five , died of cancer .
12 Well like I mean I said to him I do n't think , you know I mean it was just ideas I think he said I 'm not saying do it .
13 When she had been at art college , but that was just kids hunting for trophies , and they had n't meant a toss to her .
14 Although she was just yards from the safety of nearby houses she was too frightened to call out .
15 Soon it was just clumps and permanently itchy so I asked them to shave it off .
16 Yeah , they would , let the bake it we used to Danish foods and cos we used to have a Danish er , we used to have erm Polish ship come in one week and an English ship come in the next week and the , the bacon was just pigs were all killed , wrapped in sacking and tied with string , and they used to be laid in the hold like that .
17 Dialectic , however moving and seductive , was just words .
18 There was still perhaps three-quarters of an hour of daylight left , but the sun was just glimpses of coppery gold between vast castles of cloud stacking up on the horizon .
19 In the weeks before His Grace 's sudden death , it was just excuses , a total refusal to consummate the marriage . ’
20 ‘ There was no soccer , no ski-ing … it was just gigs . ’
21 and erm Moot House , you know there was , there was nothing else , it was just fields everywhere else
22 It , it was just fields .
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