Example sentences of "were just [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , no no , the stooks were just stooks all the time ? |
| 2 | Those old boards — they were just rockets . |
| 3 | She took my hand , and played with my bracelet — and her fingers , her wrist were just bones . |
| 4 | You see , they were just more or less sort of , I thought they were just sea merchants . |
| 5 | To Judith they were just faces in a photograph . |
| 6 | They were just faces . |
| 7 | But the couple 's solicitor Con Fernandez said the pair were just skittles waiting to be bowled over by the long arm of the law . |
| 8 | But the couple 's solicitor Con Fernandez said the pair were just skittles waiting to be bowled over by the long arm of the law . |
| 9 | They were just pawns in the grand design . |
| 10 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone Park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 11 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 12 | Skeletal arms lifted , one pointing ; eyes that were just holes in maggoty wood seemed to seek compassion from the human . |
| 13 | Not without throwing a great lot onto the rates because the rates were just Selkirkshire , and Peebleshire had to keep it up then and er we did n't er get grants for it in these days . |
| 14 | They were just tearaways . |
| 15 | They were just tearaways . |
| 16 | His troubles in 1971 , however , were not just the March and his propensity for accidents : the fact was that he was now an experienced F3 driver , known to be quick , but by the nature of the formula was racing against a lot of people who were just beginners and knew far less than he did about the sport . |
| 17 | Traditional doughnuts were just lumps of dough with jam in the middle until , in 1847 , the Americans invented the ring doughnut . |
| 18 | These were just dreams ; foolish , romantic dreams ; and Johnny had as much need of them as anyone else . |
| 19 | Second , this war has been lost at another and even more terrible level : it is destroying our Serb feeling that our wars were just wars and that we behave honourably . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sure they were just accidents , ’ insisted Endill . |
| 21 | But they were just resolutions . |
| 22 | ‘ To them we were just part of their extended families . ’ |
| 23 | That the compliments were just part of the softening-up process . ’ |
| 24 | the events were just part of a programme of special attractions running until the end of September . |
| 25 | Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana . |
| 26 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 27 | Anyway , we were just friends . ’ |
| 28 | They were just friends and although there was a lot of that [ sex ] at Oxford at that time , a platonic friendship was not unknown . |
| 29 | We were just friends . |
| 30 | Maureen and I — we thought we were just friends . |