Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expecting people to know it 's wrong to mug old ladies does n't seem unreasonable to me , but I 'm just a copper . |
| 2 | These predominantly rolling hills certainly hold snow better than the hills of the west , but I 'm just a bit disappointed that some super areas north of the Great Glen have been missed out . |
| 3 | I do n't think anybody can agree , there is , there is perhaps a better way of looking at the current formula , but I 'm just a little bit concerned having read this report and seen the purpose , about the way that er , the A C C are , are pressing for the |
| 4 | You gentlemen here , forgive me , but you are just a bunch of naive dreamers . |
| 5 | ‘ Like I say ; I could have got the baby-sitter to help me with him , but she 's just a skelf … not our regular girl . |
| 6 | ‘ But she was just a gorgeous bitch , ’ Fen continued . |
| 7 | But he 's just a bit anxious because you have never flown before . |
| 8 | But he 's just a regular , down to earth person , so I have great faith . ’ |
| 9 | They call him ‘ the Hero of Hammerfest ’ , but he 's just a shit . |
| 10 | But he 's just a boy . |
| 11 | But he 's just a bit irritating cos he well you know I do , I do n't understand how you go through a whole relationship and everything , and then come to end of it and not even feel the slightest bit |
| 12 | is fine swinging the ball with the tide erm , when Tufnell 's bowling , just an alteration in the field , Mike was deep forward square leg , if , if , that 's the right place he was neither square legged or mid wicket and it 's prompted him to move straighter , but he 's just a natural swing for the left-hander to hit with the tide in that mid wicket area . |
| 13 | I was swotty but he was just a brain . |
| 14 | As time passes , it becomes harder for workers to shift , but it is just a matter of absorption and keeping up to date , ’ he says . |
| 15 | I would like green eyes if I could have them but it 's just a passing thought , not a real obsession . |
| 16 | Not in an egotistical way but it 's just a moment of reaffirmation … |
| 17 | But it 's just a foul old tip , Ruth thought ; why do we still have to come here ? |
| 18 | Well , it 's every night but it 's just a couple of hours a night . |
| 19 | It 's not bounded by a solid line but it 's just a normal hatching . |
| 20 | But it 's just a bit more awkward to work out what six twelfths is maybe . |
| 21 | The only thing is another old place that in was Auchentipple There used to be a chapel there and it was called the Hunt Chapel , but it 's just a hunt now . |
| 22 | ‘ I mean , it 's a brilliant deduction , ’ said Owen , ‘ but it 's just a deduction . ’ |
| 23 | And every single incident , every single one of those people , there i , there is a hu , there is a human being there a and for every one of them there are perhaps hundreds of other people who are affected by that loss but it 's just a number to us . |
| 24 | Yeah but it 's just a joke . |
| 25 | but it 's just a question of finding it , it 's |
| 26 | But it 's just a receipt ? |
| 27 | Well I mean the children , I mean if I go into the school and I , and say to them look there is a fire there but , you know , please will you not use it but it 's just a question of whether the children fiddle with it really , that 's |
| 28 | you know , cos we were all single I think all of us were and we were just going for a joke cos seriously it 's just a cattle market at you know you do n't talk to people well you do but it 's just a laugh . |
| 29 | ‘ But it was just a decision I had to make under the circumstances I was given . |
| 30 | But it was just a bell that rang , it did not buzz or chime . |