Example sentences of "[noun sg] there was just " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he went a week without work there was just seven pounds a week pool money to take home . |
| 2 | If you looked up to the right there was just a green shoulder and endless sky , day after day blue . |
| 3 | If everything tumbled into place there was just a chance that they could be on the same ferry as the Renault , at 1330 hours the next day . |
| 4 | But the inquest was told that at night on B wing there was just one prison officer in charge of 120 inmates . |
| 5 | After a whole day there was just a thin layer of muddy slush . |
| 6 | In the big race … the womens championships … the favourite Andrea Whitcombe who was out to win for a record equalling third year in a row was beaten in to second place by Lisa York of Leicester … they raced for nearly four miles and at the finish there was just three seconds between them |
| 7 | People used all sorts of tricks and various types of equipment but here in this silent building there was just the pig , Lord Hulton and me . |
| 8 | As I arrived back in York just before 6pm on time and with little hope of a refund there was just one conclusion . |
| 9 | By the end of the week there was just a simple theory test left where we were asked questions about winds , how to overtake and so on — and then it was certificate time . |
| 10 | And , quite apart from demonstrating maturity by dismissing the incident and behaving normally , if she could manage to be polite to this man there was just a chance she might discover some clues to his plans for her family 's business . |
| 11 | But they just said all over the garden there was just dead carcasses of animals . |
| 12 | I was so hurt it was like a serious wound , it would start being painful soon but in the meantime there was just an apprehensive numbness . |
| 13 | In his judgment Lord Denning MR was highly critical of the decision in Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent because the agreement there was just and made in good faith . |
| 14 | Er at one time there was just over about a thousand people employed in Brothers . |
| 15 | Mr Bates said : ‘ The waiting time there was just two months . |
| 16 | But when when they showed you in the house there was just like old cardboard boxes just sort of thrown in the corner and and just sort of paper carrier bags and polythene bags just sort of slung there . |