Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [was/were] just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either Mr. Woodford had a twinkle in his eye or was just a good salesman , but the upshot was that he supplied my grandmother over many years , in his turn his son carried on and continued serving my mother , right up to 1949 when the Salisbury round had only two customers left . |
| 2 | Well when we got it home I realized it was the battery lead that was just a little bit of lead |
| 3 | tying them up but when they went out to the end of the estuary that was just a case of get there first to get the job ? |
| 4 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |
| 5 | ‘ No , no , there 's no difficulty at all , ’ the other man said in a voice that was just a shade too affable . |