Example sentences of "was just [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | And the second fire I had was just before the last war . |
| 32 | ‘ It was just before the fork . ’ |
| 33 | I was in a wine bar the other day and it was just before the opening of Stanstead , a few weeks before , and I met a chap in there who worked in the airport and we were just in conversation and he said , asked him what he did , and he said , ‘ I 'm basically on temporary contract preparing for the Queen coming to open the airport . ’ |
| 34 | That was just after the war , 1949 , and I was passionately interested in all the political movements . ’ |
| 35 | Shaun used to want to argue about essentially trivial things like whether we should appear on Top Of The Pops — and that was just after the first single . |
| 36 | It was just after the kidnap . ’ |
| 37 | But science could not explain why it was as it was just after the big bang . |
| 38 | But do n't forget that was just after the war and er the Labour were beginning to build up , getting things better , run better country than they were previous p people . |
| 39 | It was just after the Second World War that Wimpey first established a local presence in the Middle East . |
| 40 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 41 | If you go back erm or let's go back to the second half of the seventeenth century , that 's always a good time to go to erm when erm well it was just after the English revolution , just after the English civil war , the Charles the First had been executed . |
| 42 | It was just like the phrase that Thatcher was so fond of . |
| 43 | Wexford thought the place was just like the sitting room of a person of taste . |
| 44 | But most of the time I did n't write because one day was just like the day before , and sometimes I thought — what 's the use of writing anyway , when nobody is ever going to read it ? |
| 45 | One adoptive parent told her adopted daughter that her first mother was just like the brown paper parcel the child came in . |
| 46 | One fireman said : ‘ It was just like the Blitz . ’ |
| 47 | Allison said : ‘ The atmosphere was just like the Manchester derbies when I was at Maine Road . |
| 48 | It was just like the books said — all a man needed was a good technique . |
| 49 | It was just like the good old days . |
| 50 | And , the court was told , the caper was just like the film Best of Friends in which Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster play two old lags who decide to pull off a final robbery . |
| 51 | It took little time to decide that her new mama was just like the doll , with her big blue eyes , and her made up face and blonde hair . |
| 52 | It was just like the tube back at work in Witwaterstrand , vertical strings of graffiti dripping unsuccessfully in multi-coloured smears . |
| 53 | It was just like the bad old days again . |
| 54 | It was just like the first one . |
| 55 | he was just like the pictures of him in books : yellowish-white bones in a long brown robe . |
| 56 | ‘ It was just like the M8 at rush hour , with water instead of tar macadam . ’ |
| 57 | He was just like the rest . |
| 58 | I remembered the van because it was just like the ones Barry bought for the business , except it was red , not white . ’ |
| 59 | It was just like the Rovers Return 20 years ago , but with an ageing Bet Lynch behind the bar . |
| 60 | He says it was just like the Oscars ! — with a meal and wine and Barry Cryer as the compere . |