Example sentences of "[pers pn] was just [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 2 | So I was just a bit of sport . |
| 3 | I was just a piece of luggage to be labelled and sent wherever they wanted . |
| 4 | It was clear to him she was just a playmate of years long gone . |
| 5 | She was just a fact of life . |
| 6 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 7 | In eighteen oh six , erm a law was passed which said that all property of a woman went over to the man on their marriage , including herself , so the woman was no longer an individual , she was just the property of the man and she could be disciplined and punished if the man felt like it . |
| 8 | The twitch broadened fractionally into what might have been a smile on anyone else but on him was just a rearrangement of composed features . |
| 9 | And when the sh when the relief came in the ship lay about a mile off the never came near the rock at all because it was just a mass of reefs you know and the ship lay about a mile off and then the launch came in with a crew of about half a dozen men and the officer the second mate usually in charge . |
| 10 | So those who say arti artificial abortion is unnatural , are I think er on a , on , on , skating on very thin ice , because you could equally well argue that it was just a continuation of a natural trend . |
| 11 | Broad , Gower and Lamb fell in quick succession and then it was just a case of mopping up . |
| 12 | For most English people it was just a case of sighing with relief that it was all over . |
| 13 | Thereafter it was just a case of hard riding the thirty miles through green Lothian , by Hailes and Haddington and Musselburgh , for Edinburgh , which he reached before nightfall . |
| 14 | I knew she had to come to me each time , it was just a case of sticking it out . |
| 15 | The farmer and his neighbours were all friends so it was just a case of asking them to keep an eye on their moggies , and spying on a few of the plumper-looking ones — successful hunters , we assumed . |
| 16 | Eventually we all agreed we wanted this fierce bark that was both harsh and metallic , after which it was just a case of refining it down until we settled on the precise tone we ended up using . |
| 17 | ‘ It was just a case of finding who they were . ’ |
| 18 | and it was just a case of erm pot luck , I would sort of brought it out and looked at it and , er no it was n't cooked , it was cooked on the edges so I turned it over and turned it round and put it back in again . |
| 19 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 20 | so when I got there it was just a case of clearing up . |
| 21 | But he knew what he was looking at , though to the untrained eye it was just a pile of minuscule fragments . |
| 22 | got this er , not , not hate , it was just a kind of |
| 23 | ‘ I think it was just a build-up of ongoing tension between them , ’ Gina admitted unhappily . |
| 24 | ‘ It was just a sea of flames … they have all gone , children and everyone ’ |
| 25 | Mostly , it was just a way of keeping myself occupied . |
| 26 | He 'd had a couple of sessions with his union rep and had been told not to worry , it was just a way of filling some quota ; if anything , his job was probably more secure now than it had been before . |
| 27 | Of course he was n't serious , it was just a way of flirting , but she could n't let his statement go unchallenged . |
| 28 | It was just a sack of shit . |
| 29 | Typical of young shearwaters , it was just a ball of grey down with a beak sticking out . |
| 30 | This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler . |