Example sentences of "had just been [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So we invoked that agreement , and Charlie said Winter Garden had set a precedent and we said No it had n't , it had just been a Cold War expedient and those days were over .
2 That had just been a lucky guess .
3 Any more than Sandra had just been a wholesome , beautiful , normal girl looking to settle down .
4 It had just been an ordinary night , starting like a hundred others .
5 The demolition of Daniel Rossiter 's slaughterhouse in 1783 , it seems , had just been an interim measure to ease congestion near the bridge ; now the Trustees were to have the power to ‘ … pull down and remove certain Houses and Buildings , now being in the Line of the said new proposed Road … ’ .
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