Example sentences of "[was/were] just [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 2 | Sorry to disappoint you , but I 'm afraid you were just pipped for the star prize . |
| 3 | Prior to ninety one two when independent taxation came in banks and building societies were just taxed at source , as it is today . |
| 4 | We were just deprived of doing what we do — just going in the studio and making records . |
| 5 | I was dying of jealousy for guys whose faces were just cratered with seeping yellow pus . |
| 6 | So that when we get to the mock interview stage , no , no one can actually back out , no one can pretend that they were just sent by their council . |
| 7 | And er we they used to fill there They were just filled with woodcuttings . |
| 8 | And it looks to me as if you two lovely people were just made for each other ! ’ |
| 9 | Those competitors ’ meetings were just attended by a group of distressed individuals who wanted to know where they were going . ’ |
| 10 | They were just stored in the caverns |
| 11 | But it is equally harmful to swing to the opposite extreme : to claim that the enterprise of becoming literate is hard only because teachers make it so , and that children would succeed perfectly well if they were just provided with suitable books and left to themselves . |
| 12 | Well no they were just described as tinkies . |
| 13 | I do n't mean they were just knocked about a bit … they were smashed , stitches and a fractured jaw for one , severe abdominal bruising for the other . |
| 14 | Many of the wharves were just padlocked with no one to guard them but Clark 's Wharf was different . |
| 15 | They were just wrapped around him . |
| 16 | Commenting on a literacy , or ‘ English ’ class , Mathew , a male user who had had a ‘ normal ’ education , said : ‘ They were just sat about talkin' ; some of 'em were drawin' when I went in . |
| 17 | you know they take them for a little visit so they get used to the school before they go , which is a good idea , I mean we were just thrown in |
| 18 | Most were unhappy — to the outside world they were just thought of as ‘ cabbages ’ , without thoughts or feelings , because that was how the people looking after them thought they were . |
| 19 | ‘ They shot part of it outside in this lot which was just covered with dogshit . |
| 20 | She was just covered in dressings and things . |
| 21 | It was just pushed through the letterbox . ’ |
| 22 | And at the end , when they flipped on the lights , ‘ everyone was just riveted to him . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's a real system now , whereas in the past , squash was just seen as a public school sort of pastime . |
| 24 | It was just seen as a normal part of the job then really . |
| 25 | I was barefoot and cold ; all I had on were my underpants and my dressing gown which , by this time , was just ripped to shreds . |
| 26 | Well it was just their own The the found of the thing was just built of big stones round about the size of the bottom of a stack . |
| 27 | His face was just pasted over a badly formed skull . |
| 28 | It was just made for Seve . |
| 29 | No I think they was just made like that in those days , yes . |
| 30 | He was just cautioned by the superintendent . |