Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youngest he managed to pull was just seventeen . |
| 2 | That particular stretch of the motorway is in is very very busy , where he stopped was just round a fairly blind right hand bend and traffic was approaching that at their normal lane three speed , and they were faced with a stationery vehicle . |
| 3 | Er er do you reckon we ought to have had , you kn you know we went over to gas , I toyed with the idea of fetching that do you know , you know when this house were built we went looking at a depot where they 've got all these grates and I took th funnily enough I took the measurements of the breast and er the only one we found was just that dead on look , right across |
| 4 | He ca n't have been so crap otherwise he would n't have been picked in such a brilliant side but the mistakes I 've seen were just appalling , and in the most important games e.g. the first Chelsea 70 Cup Final game when the ball went right under his body . |
| 5 | The way the whole thing was done was just absolutely outrageous , ’ he said . |
| 6 | This 6.30 a.m. walk to breakfast was just about the worst part of the day , when my morale was low and thoughts of home rose painfully . |
| 7 | And all he 'd got ta do was just put like two different bins , sizes of turkeys , and they just pick them out and there 's this thing like a V shaped hook and they just sort of |
| 8 | The young man looked startled that what he 'd thought was just a speck in his eye was turning out to be something much more serious . |
| 9 | Everything that happened was just too pat , too convenient . |
| 10 | For most of the two world wars , though , the Meet was just kept ticking over and from 1940 to 1947 Alderman Billy Robinson was both Mayor of Richmond and President of the Meet . |
| 11 | Another version says that the idea of tapes being wiped was just a wheeze to get a comfortable taxi back to base ! |
| 12 | The changes imposed were just about as much as the Services could take at that time without loss of morale and fighting efficiency . |
| 13 | After that the jug of water was empty and I was full , but the waiter was smirking in an enigmatic Eastern way , so I toyed with the final concoction , just to prove I could if I wanted to , and that any I happened to leave was just for manners . |
| 14 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |
| 15 | Getting out his old university textbook on mechanics he succeeded in showing that the behaviour observed was just what would be the case if all the positive charge were concentrated in a point-like object at the centre of the atom . |
| 16 | She was tired of kneeling , listening to their voices droning on : ‘ Our Father who art in heaven , hallowed be Thy name ’ , and ‘ Hail Mary , full of grace ’ , which was all she could make out of the second bit , because what followed was just a mumble . |
| 17 | What I was getting was just what the salesman adviser had in his bag that would earn him commission . ’ |
| 18 | The sum raised was just over £1,038 and brought the total for the Railway Hotel since 1982 to over £5,000 . |
| 19 | this is a structural change , what you could do or the easiest thing would be to do was just to incorporate a dummy variable , right , if you incorporated a dummy variable to a erm and to explain the and to take out the effect of structural change , right , er in that dummy inclusive model , right , all the diagnostic test statistics were okay , right , you would use , you would , therefore , use that , that particular model what we might do is just see if that is the case erm so if you come out of er diagnostics , work towards the data processing environment and generate a dummy variable right , so if you go into the erm data processing environment if it 's in the er sort of process plot option what we 'll do create a dummy variable call it D and let D pull zero press the return key and then edit D oh and if you just set erm observations for |
| 20 | Perhaps , in spite of the fact that she did need the money , what she ought to do was just catch the first plane back home . |
| 21 | Twenty three thousand , and she left all carpets , furniture curtains and everything and all he had to do was just move in . |
| 22 | But er the things that they were doing were just unbelievable . |
| 23 | Children who had seen the ending of the film were the aggressor was berated were just as aggressive if rewarded with candy for every act they could re-create from the film . |
| 24 | Indeed it might almost be conjectured that those families in which political nous was widely distributed were just those that found the principle of primogeniture unpalatable . |
| 25 | The familiar Twelfth Night everyone knew and loved was just that along with a fine performance by the English Shakespeare Company . |
| 26 | Confined to the fine arts , this clinging to the safe and known was just a brake upon innovation and exuberance . |
| 27 | What she needed was just one person , one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her to understand the meaning of this extraordinary happening . |
| 28 | The distance to fly was just over 500 nautical miles , which meant that with the published 75% cruise range of 780 nautical miles with reserves , we had more than two hours excess endurance . |
| 29 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 30 | An additional problem is that the stimuli over which the relationships were observed were just six exemplars each of only ten junctions . |