Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right I was just reading here about about er er the funeral in Northern Ireland and the minister would n't let the erm flag draped coffins of two I R A go into the church with the insignia and whatever on top of the coffins there . |
| 2 | Only I was just scared — I could have broken her in two with my bare hands and I was scared to death of her . |
| 3 | Perhaps I was just being a ridiculous prig , behaving quite differently from anyone else who had ever been taken prisoner . |
| 4 | It could be that he felt I represented authority or the establishment in some way , or perhaps I was just convenient |
| 5 | There was never any budget and so I was just using stuff that I 'd already recorded here and there — hence the roughness of it . |
| 6 | So I was just saying that this year it would be hopefully everybody will go through it . |
| 7 | So I was just a bit of sport . |
| 8 | I mean , in a much more , erm , a le a less severe example , but we 're having a Road Safety Week , at school , this week , erm , and it was my class 's turn , yesterday afternoon , so I was just there keeping a watching brief with my my children while the , road safety representative was talking to them , and she put them us through the usual hoops of erm , did any of them play on the roadside un unattended . |
| 9 | and , and , so I was just giggling away , talk a load of rubbish , and no no , you need a new clutch , forget it , forget it . |
| 10 | eight o'clock I was just |
| 11 | British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then . |
| 12 | Perhaps she was just bad . |
| 13 | Perhaps she was just feeling generally unhappy , and you put two and two together and made five . |
| 14 | But perhaps she was just short of sleep : there were other ways of looking at it . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps you were just unlucky and got a rogue one , ’ she offered helplessly . |
| 16 | So she were just having a crumpet , she 's but butter were all melting , I says I can just picture now running down your chin and |
| 17 | so she were just having a few crumpets |
| 18 | So you were just lying listening to music in between the chair and the couch ? |
| 19 | ‘ They had n't tested the French market at all before opening and so everything was just delivered from Wales , hung up and not thought about . |
| 20 | So there was just the two |
| 21 | Perhaps they were just ahead of their time . |
| 22 | Perhaps they were just listening . |
| 23 | So they were just surrounding it in places . |
| 24 | So they were just playing the music that they liked . |
| 25 | They 'd have a little fancy shawl or My Grandma used to always have a fancy shawl that Just a small thing that came , you know , a bit down their back and And my Grandma used to wear erm a white much It was just thing like a baby 's A cotton thing , tied with a just a string , you know just to erm just a tie under her chin and it would have a wee bit of lace s on the corner , or the or the end of the tie , that was through the day and it was all ruffled , and then when she was on holiday and came into town she had a a thing on her head made of velvet and it all had fancy little things in it . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was just gastric flu . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was just someone pretending to be Viola for security reasons . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was just the effect of the tourist season , but Spain seemed very much more prosperous , and the construction companies and property developers had their giant cranes everywhere , their crude colours looming garishly over the old amber-rose stone of the city 's most ancient monuments . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was just as well that there did n't seem to be any extra business around tonight . |
| 30 | Or perhaps it was just the usual look of her rather weird eyes . |