Example sentences of "[was/were] just [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am aware that there was a steady decrease in the casualty figures and this was welcome to the Harris Offensive and also to the Mighty Eighth , but it always appeared to be that the Luftwaffe were just that one step ahead until , of course , the advent of D-Day and the advance of the Allies on the Continent . |
| 2 | No , well I mean , it were n't as though I had n't put a payment in it were just that it probably was this taking Tracey 's book and I marked it onto Tracey 's , er , Tracey 's book . |
| 3 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 4 | I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him . |
| 5 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 6 | It was just that their minds went — ‘ Space Oddity ’ — guys are going into space — sounds like a commercial idea — go for it . |
| 7 | it was just that her imagination , so strong and enticing , was apt to sweep away the barrier between itself and reality . |
| 8 | So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people . |
| 9 | It was just that the problems were far bigger than people realized . |
| 10 | She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them . |
| 11 | It was just that at Summerhill the ‘ kids ’ knew what to do with it . |
| 12 | ‘ It was just that you seemed so interested in my being one of the survivors that I got quite the wrong initial impression . ’ |
| 13 | It was just that I dislike going off half-cocked , talking too much about a project before I can see where it 's leading . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps it was just that Gildas was closest , he understood most , and although their friendship was impregnable , they could still hurt each other . |
| 15 | It was just that suddenly he felt he could not look up , that he could n't , as he put it , either stand it any longer , or stand any longer . |
| 16 | It was n't that the new treatment was particularly bad , it was just that the very idea of a re-mix fell directly against the grain of the code of ethics publicly laid down by The Smiths . |
| 17 | There was no kind of animosity at all because we are still friends with him but it was just that his presence did n't do anything dramatic for the group creatively so we asked him to go . ’ |
| 18 | It was just that in camp the link between sex and behaviour was often cruder and more obvious than in ordinary life . |
| 19 | It was just that at the moment of climax when the escape had to be attempted or abandoned , it became if attempted something quite different from what it had been in the planning . |
| 20 | It was just that she did n't lie , to herself or others , about what they were . |
| 21 | ‘ It was just that I had other things on my mind . |
| 22 | It was just that everything seemed too close , like staring at a light bulb . |
| 23 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
| 24 | It was just that she knew that there was something seriously wrong with her — something far more dramatic than a grumbling appendix or the normal after-effects of an operation . |
| 25 | It was just that they were all in profile and virtually identical . |
| 26 | It was just that Tim and the new show did n't fit together very well . |
| 27 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 28 | It was just that she loved Eve as much as any mother could love a daughter . |
| 29 | It was just that we were all so fond of her . |
| 30 | Not that they needed a fire , it was just that a fire was more civilized . |