Example sentences of "they were just [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Judith they were just faces in a photograph . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought they were just gulls at first , ’ said Edward . |
| 3 | They were just pawns in the grand design . |
| 4 | They were just pieces in Matyre 's game . |
| 5 | I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much . |
| 6 | They were just sort of as I said , they used this celluloid . |
| 7 | They were just blobs of ink — but we made them think |
| 8 | Now obviously the you could see the cars in that fast lane there , they were just nose to tail , nose to tail . |