Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just a kid looking for the ‘ juice ’ ’ . |
| 2 | In the end I remember I said to him that I was just a spoilt Yank and my father sent me money so he need n't worry about a thing . |
| 3 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 4 | I just could n't get a word out then , I was just a quivering , stuttering heap , and I tried to say , ‘ I 've g-g-g-g-got a sp-sp-sp-speech impediment . ’ |
| 5 | Thought I was just a wannabe nobody . ’ |
| 6 | I was just a doss . |
| 7 | I was just a stranger up here in Liverpool , coming from Scotland and I did n't have anybody backing me , which a lot of people do — somebody pulling strings for them . |
| 8 | I was just a girl who couldaint say Non ! |
| 9 | I was just a girl who couldaint say Non ! |
| 10 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 11 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 12 | The first time I was just a mere kid ! |
| 13 | I was just a little kid , living at home and going to school — fifteen , but boy it was real exciting . |
| 14 | Walsh said : ‘ I was just a nobody and it was only a telephone call from Oldham coach Peter Tunks that persuaded me to apply . |
| 15 | ‘ Off the field he was an established star and I was just a youngster . |
| 16 | I was just a squib and he was a six-former , very fine chap and took no notice of grubby little oicks . |
| 17 | That I was just a father , a husband — I 'd somehow ceased to exist as a person in my own right . ’ |
| 18 | I was just a skivvy . |
| 19 | I thought I was just a bit hyper , like everyone else . |
| 20 | I was just a little curious and she seemed to be er |
| 21 | ‘ I was just a bit taken aback , that 's all . |
| 22 | I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … . |
| 23 | I told the director to put that in his film but , of course , he thought I was just a mad old teapot . ’ |
| 24 | Then she said slowly , ‘ We were so young , you and I. I was just a poor singer from Norway , and you … you were the Vicomte de Chagny . |
| 25 | I was just a bit jealous , I suppose . |
| 26 | She was still terribly young and anyway , I think I was just a boy to her … any boy … and she wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed . ’ |
| 27 | I was just a young girl from a small planet and I felt very unimportant here . |
| 28 | I was just a piece of luggage to be labelled and sent wherever they wanted . |
| 29 | Like I was just a shadow , or a dog he does n't have to talk to . |
| 30 | To him I was just a child amusing herself . |