Example sentences of "were just the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were just the whitehorn and brier of the hedges , the green ridge of the lane inside the wheel tracks , the wild strawberries starting to darken on the banks . |
| 2 | ‘ An ’ it were just the same then . |
| 3 | Evidently no generalization decrement occurred with the stimuli and procedures used here because there was no loss of conditioned responding in group D. But the stimuli and procedures used in the aversive conditioning experiment of Fig. 4.5(b) were just the same as those used in the appetitive conditioning experiment of Fig. 4.5(a) . |
| 4 | ‘ I think my parents were just the sort of people who did not like staying in one place for very long . |
| 5 | I knew sexual love and had a love for those very close to me — perhaps half a dozen people in all — but for the rest of the world , well , they really were just the Mafia . |
| 6 | And those were just the British issues , which did not yet include a conventional album . |
| 7 | These were just the internal shortcomings at TMI . |
| 8 | We did a John Peel radio session a while ago and me and Debbie both used these really early seventies Thin Lizzy amps and they were just the best . |
| 9 | No-one ever called The Stones a rock band ; they were just The Stones . |
| 10 | Nothing traumatic happened ; there were just the ordinary ups and downs which would naturally have occurred in the life of a humble family striving to make a reasonable living in a somewhat precarious way . |
| 11 | There were just the two of us . |
| 12 | ‘ Mam had asked him to look after us and there were just the three children in the house . |
| 13 | There were just the mist and the empty roads , and the far-of crowing of cockerels in the dawn . |
| 14 | Gulliver 's Travels went back to telling fantastic tales , but Swift wrote the book in the same realistic style as Defoe , and took it for granted that his readers would find it quite natural that at the ends of the earth men were just the same as in England — petty , trivial , grasping , and generally unpleasant . |
| 15 | Australia again provided the answer with Mitchelton 's elegant and keenly-priced ‘ 89 Late Picked Muscat ( Tesco , £4.19 ) , whose rich , sweet flavours were just the ticket . |
| 16 | While her parents , Ciesinski says , ‘ were just the kind of people who wanted their kids to do whatever we wanted ’ , she and her sister Katherine , who is twenty-one months older , both found themselves moving towards careers in opera . |
| 17 | These , it was thought , were just the first countries on the list . |
| 18 | I see now that these were just the first skirmishes in a never-ending guerrilla war . |
| 19 | The new kids were indistinguishable from the old and the new parents were just the same , for the female cousins had all married , or shacked up with , wispy , indefinite , ineffectual men ; and the male cousins had simply married their mothers . |
| 20 | At last there were just the external walls to be given a final coat of white paint . |
| 21 | There were just the two of them . |
| 22 | Now the other side we did n't have one at all , we did , it were just the path down . |
| 23 | Well were just the , all just common ground owned by they own all that ground . |
| 24 | Hubble 's discovery that the universe was expanding , and the realization of the insignificance of our own planet in the vastness of the universe , were just the starting point . |
| 25 | The Cajun Kings were just the job , as was John . |
| 26 | They were just the sort of purchasers on whom peasants relied . |
| 27 | ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 28 | There were just the three of them , with Chamberlain holding one man 's future or the other 's in the palm of his hand . |
| 29 | Yeah well , there was n't many shops there really dear , there were just the er fishmongers and greengrocers and the butchers and the , we used to have to go there to get , to queue up , you had to queue because there was no , not many shops to be there you see to serve you , it 's altered a lot now , there 's a lot more shops now and the doctors I used to have to queue right out the gate , the doctors a big long queue , there was only Dr surgery and then we had another doctor came that started down at erm the bottom of erm Harlow near where , where do they call that ? |
| 30 | And erm I suppose it would make it would be a lot more logical if all the blinds were just the same price all the time . |