Example sentences of "[adv] it was just " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was just gastric flu . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was just someone pretending to be Viola for security reasons . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was just as well that there did n't seem to be any extra business around tonight . |
| 6 | Or perhaps it was just the usual look of her rather weird eyes . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was just that Gildas was closest , he understood most , and although their friendship was impregnable , they could still hurt each other . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was just a cold , or possibly something more serious . |
| 9 | But perhaps it was just as well that she had this shock , for in her relief at finding the injury comparatively slight , she forbore to say very much about the unexpected guest . |
| 10 | Princess Anne smiled at me as she went by , or Perhaps it was just my imagination . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was just wishful thinking . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was just as well . |
| 13 | Then , with that stoical and selfless streak in her character , she reflected that perhaps it was just as well he was not . |
| 14 | Perhaps he could n't bear to , perhaps it was just that he felt his marriage to be a private affair . |
| 15 | And perhaps it was just as well because there , on the seat of the rag cart and sitting as patiently as the pony was standing , was Ben . |
| 16 | Something about the way he approached the Saab 900 Carlsson suggested that he still likes to put his foot down : perhaps it was the way his right elbow automatically felt for a resting place against the window , perhaps it was just the fact that it was his birthday ( 42 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps it was just a car backfiring , ’ said Alice , ‘ or even thunder . ’ |
| 18 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 19 | Or perhaps it was just shock at seeing me without the gag . |
| 20 | Finally the interrogators must have lost their patience , or perhaps it was just the heat of the vodka . |
| 21 | Or perhaps it was just lack of choice , the need for a home of her own and a child . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was just in Evans 's mind , this other man . |
| 23 | On the whole , he thought to himself , perhaps it was just as well . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was just purple eye-shadow lavishly applied , he decided eventually . |
| 25 | Robbie was terribly tempted to ask how he would describe the glamorous-looking Petula , so perhaps it was just as well that at that moment they came in sight of the first lock . |
| 26 | But perhaps it was just as well , and at least the physical toll the climb was taking had , temporarily at least , driven other sensations from her body . |
| 27 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 28 | Perhaps it was just due to the way he 'd been sleeping lately , a restless , shallow sleep full of dreams which never seemed to work themselves out properly , leaving him half-enmeshed in their elaborate complexities even after waking . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was just an act of revenge . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps it was just another instance of a preference for his own company . |