Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [was/were] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked inside and it was just like my granny 's sitting room Not only did it sell teddy boy clothes but there was also a fifties radiogram and fifties wallpaper . |
| 2 | So if it was just two rooms you had , |
| 3 | Yes , I think so if it were just three or four of them you 've got to have |
| 4 | I see now that it was just his way of keeping me on my mettle and making sure I did n't get big-headed . |
| 5 | She thought now that it was just one of his acts , put on to get sympathy . |
| 6 | I mean you talked about this before but it was just a joke , right . ’ |
| 7 | Then it went straight up so fast that it was just a blur and jerked to a halt high over the crowd . |
| 8 | well if it was just some things |
| 9 | And , even if it were just an American issue , how can one claim to represent American art properly in the period when women 's work often led the way without including some of the artists I 've mentioned . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not being afraid of dying , ’ adds Salli , ‘ but I 'd hate to die having done nothing , even if it was just a little step forward . |
| 11 | Even if it was just somewhere built by humans . ’ |
| 12 | And I always watched Wimbledon on the telly , even if it was just to see the lady players in those short skirts ( apart from old ‘ muscles ’ Navratilova ! ) . |
| 13 | you know so erm so some er a lot more should 've been done about actually getting , even if it was just well I 'm in that area , I 'm in the area on such and such a day anyway so I can call in to see you . |
| 14 | Now she was here and it was just like old times : in the darkroom with Maggie , working on filthy pictures . |
| 15 | ‘ I regretted it immediately but it was just a lot of frustration . ’ |
| 16 | He worried about that , but even if it had succeeded simply because it was just another of the ridiculous and unbelievable antics in a ‘ Carry On ’ film , succeed it did . |
| 17 | Even though it was just a small black cube , it somehow always looked more alert when it was listening . |
| 18 | Fortunately , even though it was just after 3am on Friday morning , Len was there to meet me and the first hurdle was over , I had arrived . |
| 19 | Yes , well Eyre there stands as a sort of a paradigmatic modern philosopher , and when I was saying earlier that it was just a logical construction to help you to talk about particular things , and I think Eyre would go along with that . |
| 20 | And when I was saying earlier that it was just a logical construction to help you to talk about particular things , and I think Ayer would go along with that . |
| 21 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 22 | No but you would 've said to me to , you know I had no one there Catriona , I was the only girl in the shack I was the only girl there and it was just so |
| 23 | If my lover was having sex with someone else and it was just a one night stand or something insignificant , it would be far less important to me than some sort of emotional thing that he might be having with someone else . |
| 24 | but I got upstairs and it was just a lot of people going That was weird though like couples disappearing in rooms and sort of |