Example sentences of "was just [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 2 | I soon found , however , that their grumpiness was just part of the Parisienne package , and indeed it often vanishes on closer acquaintance . |
| 3 | Liberalizing emigration was just part of Ceauşescu 's strategy to gain acceptance in the West and thereby access to its storehouses of wealth , technology and industrial secrets . |
| 4 | The palace complex was just part of the Conducator 's plans to transform Romania as a whole . |
| 5 | Although she remembered the words perfectly well , Constance merely said , ‘ Oh , nothing , it was just part of your general racket . ’ |
| 6 | For Camus the beauty of the women was just part of the rapturous wealth heaped on the senses here . |
| 7 | It was just part of life . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He said Jack was just part of the system ! ’ |
| 9 | It was just part of the routine . |
| 10 | It was just part of our tradition . " |
| 11 | ‘ It was just part of the job , ’ says a phlegmatic Ruscoe . |
| 12 | Mhm , that was just part of the job then |
| 13 | Now , if the moon was just part of the earth the moon 's gravity would be adding to the earth and then there would be generally more gravity all round . |
| 14 | A Church already existed at Old Chiswick , for the folk who lived along that part of the River Thames , or used the ferry crossing which was just west of the eyot there . |
| 15 | By the early twentieth century the focus of activity was just west of the River Trent , especially in the area between Doncaster and Nottingham ( Griffin , 1977 ) . |
| 16 | BSM was just kind of … there . |
| 17 | So it was just kind of what ever enthusiasm there was washed away with that . |
| 18 | If you do n't believe in religion , you might think that er , the world was just kind of here for no particular reason , and er , that human existence was just a kind of accident or something happen happened , and er , has no has no greater significance . |
| 19 | And so the book was just kind of , ignored I think , and left standing , and now it 's out of print , and we 've discovered this week , it 's not even in the university library . |
| 20 | I do n't care what it was , it was just kind of , you know , a story that they might know . |
| 21 | Everything else was just water off a duck 's back . ’ |
| 22 | The area north of Bedford House , which itself was just north of the Green , consisted of orchard and market garden land , so Mr. Carr 's idea led to the area of Bedford Park becoming known as the first Garden Suburb , with three principal architects designing the buildings , Norman Shaw , E.W. Godwin and E.T . |
| 23 | ‘ It could have been nasty but in the end I think it was just case of exchanging insurance details , ’ said Insp Madison . |
| 24 | I mean it was just day before yesterday I walked up with him . |
| 25 | When he allowed his prime minister to make reassuring comments about France 's continuing role in Algeria or when he himself encouraged rumours that self-determination was just window-dressing for the UN , he was not merely deceiving people for the sake of his Algerian policy ; he was fulfilling what he regarded as one of the state 's sacred responsibilities : to keep the fabric of national unity intact . |
| 26 | He concluded that the northern limit of totality was just south of his location . |
| 27 | ‘ I wish I had n't given up , ’ Alison was saying , ‘ it was just lack of courage . ’ |
| 28 | Or perhaps it was just lack of choice , the need for a home of her own and a child . |
| 29 | There was just time for England and Australia to fit in the final Test before getting on with the serious business — serious to those for whom dollar signs are important — of dashing round the country playing game after game after game of the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup . |
| 30 | When I visited Aunt Louise there was just time for us to have a meal in one of the High Street cafés before I caught the bus home . |