Example sentences of "[was/were] just the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The wall was just the right height for the dog to make a leap and bark into the ear of the passers by . |
| 32 | The house was just the right size for us ; downstairs , an entrance hall , four rooms , a kitchen and a servants hall ; upstairs , six bedrooms and an attic . |
| 33 | The club was just the right kind of venue for them to cut their professional teeth on , and she was glad to give them the opportunity . |
| 34 | And that was just the second post . ’ |
| 35 | It was just the middle period that Barnsley , fuelled by the goal , were on top . |
| 36 | Or perhaps it was just the usual look of her rather weird eyes . |
| 37 | He said , with his back to me , until you went away I thought it was just the usual thing . |
| 38 | Jacqui was just the frayed end of an otherwise completed pattern and it was with reluctance that he dialled his own number . |
| 39 | No it was just the round circle and that was twelv |
| 40 | There was just the summer-shrunken stream from which a pale mist drifted to lie in shadowy skeins across the plump fields of wheat and rye and barley . |
| 41 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 42 | It came from his left , near by , and he looked there and found that Slorne was just the other side of the bars from him and she was looking at him . |
| 43 | As you face the station , he lived that side you see and er there , the room where they used to entertain their friends was just the other side of the wall the booking office , you see , and er he was such a kind man , his name was Mr |
| 44 | ‘ There was just the one copy , which limited readership somewhat . ’ |
| 45 | Er er there was just the one meal a day and a piece of bread and that was your lot . |
| 46 | There was just the one chef , and he was standing at what looked like a domestic range using a wire scoop in a king-sized wok . |
| 47 | If it had been later in the season , and the roses in full bloom , he might have missed the portal altogether , but there was just the one unopened bud on the bare branches , of a delicate peach shade with hints of rose which made him think of a girl 's skin . |
| 48 | It was an evening of blissful happiness for Jack 's brother , a return to boyhood , those beloved ‘ Malvern days when it was just the two of us against the P'daytabird ’ . |
| 49 | When I 'd finished and it was just the two of us left I put my arms around him and kissed his face . |
| 50 | It was just the two of them . |
| 51 | It was just the two of them left in the pub . |
| 52 | It was just the two of them , in the warmth and near-darkness of the farmhouse kitchen . |
| 53 | So there was just the two |
| 54 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 55 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 56 | It 's not er racial or something like that it was just the general standard of the people which has so much changed . |
| 57 | Deciding which manuals to supply was just the first of a chain or decisions . |
| 58 | This was a story he told all his life ; it was just the first of many miracles with which he believed he was blessed . |
| 59 | Reviewing the seminar , Paul Murray said : ‘ Given the change in our portfolio , this important step in LASMO 's investor relations programme was both essential and effective and was just the first of such events — we will certainly be continuing this communications process in the future . ’ |
| 60 | And that was just the first shampoo ! |