Example sentences of "he [was/were] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bill says the samples of water you sent him were just that , water . ’ |
| 2 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 3 | Immobile , the shape of him was just discernible in the darkness of the bedroom . |
| 4 | The twitch broadened fractionally into what might have been a smile on anyone else but on him was just a rearrangement of composed features . |
| 5 | Nithard pointed out that what Lothar had done to him was just what he planned to do to Charles . |
| 6 | The memory was staggeringly clear , as though he had just heard those other bells , as though he were just surging forward in his final spurt , kicking for home . |
| 7 | He were just messing about ! |
| 8 | He were just made me laugh come on then I 'll just come out with you , in the garden . |
| 9 | I expected Father to chase me , but when I reached the corner and looked back he was just standing there talking to the thin man . |
| 10 | I think he was just as keen to look after us then , and his optimism , cheerfulness and absolute lack of self-pity made me , for one , feel very very small . |
| 11 | He was just another casualty . |
| 12 | He was just 16 . |
| 13 | I could never really work out the basis of his friendship with Steve and Paul They were pretty street-wise while he was just odd . |
| 14 | I was n't really aware of who he was , he was just a kind of mate . |
| 15 | But , as far as I was concerned , he was just another rockabilly who 'd park his flash motor out the front and seemed to have more money than all the rest of us put together . |
| 16 | He was just shifting this succulent morsel in his mouth before grinding her bones , when he heard an extraordinary sound ; he heard a gurgle of laughter . |
| 17 | The dog stopped and he was just about to congratulate himself on his authoritative and successful method of summoning her , when she made a plunging dart forward and seized the mass of cloth in her mouth . |
| 18 | He was just drawing the screens apart to step inside , when the door opened . |
| 19 | He was just 18 . |
| 20 | He was just a fool . |
| 21 | So this guy came in , and he was just extraordinary . |
| 22 | When I first met him he was just an averagely quiet spoken , fairly intelligent hippie and gradually , the perversity and debauchery crept in . |
| 23 | I thought he was just going to do a couple of acoustic numbers . |
| 24 | He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him . |
| 25 | It was a great number and they took notice of him even though he was just on his own . |
| 26 | But David was fabulous — he was just great — and the boys were great . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , she did , and I think she hoped something would come of it — well , so did I. But when he met Angela he was just bowled over by her . |
| 28 | He found at the edge of his consciousness the wish that he was just going to his own flat to crash out rather than back to share Catherine 's warm bed . |
| 29 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 30 | When Lamb played five balls of an over defensively and then ran two off the last , it was clear that he was just settling for his hundred , and since Terry immediately succumbed Lamb was criticized for exposing him , rather than trying to keep the strike . |