Example sentences of "be just [pron] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It would have been just her luck if the damned thing had broken down en route , leaving her at the mercy of his unexpected return .
2 It would be just her luck if Inspector Montgomery drove past while she was swinging there like a monkey .
3 This is just what Honey and Hall ( 1989 b ) found — compound exposure attenuated the acquisition of latent inhibition by a tone when the other member of the compound was a click ; but ( as in the Mercier and Baker ( 1985 ) study ) a salient light was ineffective as an overshadowing stimulus .
4 It is just their dignity as selves that is at issue , and Mr Jones has chosen the most powerful humiliation of all , that is treating them as within the social control of their parents .
5 ‘ I have watched videos of Benredjeb and he will be a tough opponent , but he is just my height and should be perfect for me , ’ he said after sparring with Arguelles at the Belfast gym of his manager , Barney Eastwood .
6 Our reason for driving on the right in America and on the left in Britain is just our expectation that this is what others will do , coupled with our further belief that it is more important that there be a common rule than that it be one rather than the other .
7 It 's just its location but it 's nice .
8 I think it 's just our culture as well
9 It 's just my size and I paid for it .
10 ‘ It 's just my determination and wanting to win and sometimes I get a bit over-zealous — but there is nothing malicious about me .
11 I could n't argue with him I just had to go and say oh well it 's just my age and get on with it !
12 I have n't dared to see the doctor yet , in case it 's just my age or something .
13 I 'm just wondering if it 's my teeth or that it 's just my blood that 's doing it .
14 So it 's just your science that you are thinking ooh and they are a lot of
15 When it was just your Dad and I we , we could go out all evening and then , then come back to the tent , but when we 've got you two we have to be back in the , we ca n't go out in the evenings .
16 ‘ It was just my presence that tarnished the fairy-tale for you ? ’
17 I had a few problems when I was about thirty and my doctor told me it was just my age and the menopause !
18 And it was just me arm and me hand and me face that were were burnt and and at that the time I mean I was n't in any pain and I think there was more serious ones to be dealt with .
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