Example sentences of "just [conj] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | i wonder … what was I trying to prove ? just that I was not a sheep , waiting to be slaughtered , at their command . |
| 2 | It was not just that I was alone in the middle of the enemy . |
| 3 | ‘ It was just that I was a bit surprised at seeing you . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's just that I was surprised that you should be doing something scientific like this . |
| 5 | It was just that I was longing to be your hostess . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Just that I was rather hoping we might have achieved that long before then . ’ |
| 7 | I ca n't do that I tell you , I mean I do n't mind , do n't get me wrong it 's just that I was the last one back up and I got up there , still got a little bit of to do and they got more than they did |
| 8 | ‘ JUST because I was n't interned in 1981 does n't mean I 'm not a Polish patriot too , ’ fumed a member of the Karczmiska Communist party committee . |
| 9 | That 's a compliment , of course , but it did n't happen just because I was tall or that I was particularly athletic . |
| 10 | ‘ Just because I was a very talented and precocious child did n't mean that I was also a happy one , ’ says Danielle . |
| 11 | ‘ Just because I was n't in the team that day did n't mean I felt any less embarrassed by the result . |
| 12 | Once , just because I was n't wearing any knickers — and he used to love it in Nice . ’ |
| 13 | [ Now there 's my little clerk sniggering away just because I was frightened . |
| 14 | Erm , I would be happy , I mean , I purposely , I put some lines in just because I was thinking that way at the time , but I 'd be very happy if other people would scribble it out , change it , throw it back at me , you know , I would like to see I suppose , just to see if we can erm , if that , because , because I have to say that although you know part of reading 's letter , erm , I feel it 's , it , it feels destructive and it feels very critical . |
| 15 | My parents were absolutely shocked when I went home from the doctor , seventeen year old and living on drugs , so so to speak , just because I was a bit excited about getting married ! |
| 16 | ‘ I was in the desert from 4 July until just after I was captured and escaped in May 1942 , ’ he told the court . |
| 17 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 18 | They were killed in an accident just before I was married — Peter was my father 's friend . ’ |
| 19 | They lived there just before I was born . |
| 20 | And erm she said all right and I said what do I do with them and she said I 'll put them down in the base at the back and I said all right so I went back on the shop floor just before I was coming out come out . |
| 21 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , I remember now , ’ she said : ‘ I did have one dream , just as I was waking up . |
| 23 | And then , just as I was reaching for my battered copy of Einstein , Jon Snow gave away the secret . |
| 24 | Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him . |
| 25 | ‘ New York called just as I was leaving . |
| 26 | Just as I was myself going to be killed , the village people managed to save me and take me up to the mountain , but I had lost too much blood and died anyway . |
| 27 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 28 | I fished on , more as an act of defiance than in the hope of catching anything ; and just as I was about to surrender a fish rose , as they always do in these circumstances , far beyond my reach . |
| 29 | It was as if he was dropping a hint or letting slip a little clue thinking that one day someone would read his diaries just as I was doing . ’ |
| 30 | Just as I was about to get in , the man spoke again . |