Example sentences of "be just [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been just before I left home in November . |
| 2 | That would be just after you decided not to declare exterminatus after all … |
| 3 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 4 | It 's just that we went down there . |
| 5 | It 's just that we did n't know that I did n't hear what she said . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just that she did n't have any life . ’ |
| 7 | It 's just that she did n't succeed . |
| 8 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 9 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 10 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 11 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 12 | Well okay , those of you who liked the Shakespeare better , for whatever reasons , even if it 's just because you did n't get to grips with Johnson , which of the plays , first of all , erm did you find most interesting ? |
| 13 | It 's just if I lay down . |
| 14 | And it and this , the one , the last one was just after I left so I did n't know her , I knew her to look at but I did n't know her personally . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was just that we had so little in common . |
| 17 | She burst into tears and said she had not meant to criticize me ; it was just that we did n't love her , nobody did , and she had only her ‘ things ’ to care for now . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was just that she did n't lie , to herself or others , about what they were . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was just that he had already made other plans . |
| 22 | the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good . |
| 23 | ‘ It was just that you seemed so interested in my being one of the survivors that I got quite the wrong initial impression . ’ |
| 24 | Even my mother had closed her eyes and ceased to speak of bridal nerves , and my groom , who meant as little to me as his mother 's dog , was just as he had always been . |
| 25 | It was her family that were changing , she thought : she was just as she had always been . |
| 26 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |
| 27 | I decided it was just because she had n't mattered that it had n't been worth shocking her . |