Example sentences of "[was/were] just [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , they were just more or less sort of , I thought they were just sea merchants . |
| 2 | ‘ To them we were just part of their extended families . ’ |
| 3 | That the compliments were just part of the softening-up process . ’ |
| 4 | the events were just part of a programme of special attractions running until the end of September . |
| 5 | unless we were just kind of indulge in a conversation and we did n't see it |
| 6 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 7 | Now obviously the you could see the cars in that fast lane there , they were just nose to tail , nose to tail . |
| 8 | I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much . |
| 9 | They were just sort of as I said , they used this celluloid . |
| 10 | Alright , I mean , we were just sort of thinking well sort of four o'clock was n't she , she was starting to come out to Che she came out with Cheeky with us last night , but of course , that 's all gon na go again in n it , if it 's gon na be five o'clock ? |
| 11 | My girl-friend and I were just making-up after a quarrel . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I did n't think it was all subjects , I thought it was just history |
| 14 | They had other compartments where it was only bread and other compartments where it was just confectionery . |
| 15 | It was just dusk , when things start to look not quite themselves . |
| 16 | So it was just luck really ? |
| 17 | it was just paradise ! |
| 18 | I soon found , however , that their grumpiness was just part of the Parisienne package , and indeed it often vanishes on closer acquaintance . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The palace complex was just part of the Conducator 's plans to transform Romania as a whole . |
| 21 | Although she remembered the words perfectly well , Constance merely said , ‘ Oh , nothing , it was just part of your general racket . ’ |
| 22 | For Camus the beauty of the women was just part of the rapturous wealth heaped on the senses here . |
| 23 | It was just part of life . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He said Jack was just part of the system ! ’ |
| 25 | It was just part of the routine . |
| 26 | It was just part of our tradition . " |
| 27 | ‘ It was just part of the job , ’ says a phlegmatic Ruscoe . |
| 28 | Mhm , that was just part of the job then |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |