Example sentences of "[was/were] just [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they were just like the old fashioned kind and er we 've never been to Harrendle since and whenever I get to Harrendle I 'd get some more sausages . |
| 2 | You were just in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 3 | But some of them were just in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 4 | Officially the Red Lion , it was just off the High Street and scene of a regular Sunday evening congregation . |
| 5 | Their farmhouse , Green Gables , was just outside the little village of Avonlea . |
| 6 | If you go back erm or let's go back to the second half of the seventeenth century , that 's always a good time to go to erm when erm well it was just after the English revolution , just after the English civil war , the Charles the First had been executed . |
| 7 | But science could not explain why it was as it was just after the big bang . |
| 8 | It was just like the good old days . |
| 9 | It was just like the bad old days again . |
| 10 | One adoptive parent told her adopted daughter that her first mother was just like the brown paper parcel the child came in . |
| 11 | ‘ I was just in the right place at the right time , I guess . |
| 12 | And this was just in the excavated part ; by extrapolation , the researchers conclude that the total sett consisted of about 880 metres of tunnels , with 124 open entrances . |
| 13 | Erm I would n't say he was pointing at his head it was just in the general direction of him . |
| 14 | He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time , like I am now , so just piss off out of it , will you ? |
| 15 | Poor unlucky soul ; he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time , and something very unlikely happened which by sheer chance mattered more to him than anybody else it could have happened to . |
| 16 | He says he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 17 | There you can see , early B R days , erm as it shows it 's Castle , it was n't Castle , it was just in the old days . |