Example sentences of "[pron] was just a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 2 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 3 | Then she said slowly , ‘ We were so young , you and I. I was just a poor singer from Norway , and you … you were the Vicomte de Chagny . |
| 4 | I was just a young girl from a small planet and I felt very unimportant here . |
| 5 | I was just a fill-in when she was n't available . ’ |
| 6 | The first time I was just a mere kid ! |
| 7 | Yes , I suppose you 're right , he probably thought I was just a harmless English eccentric ! |
| 8 | In the end I remember I said to him that I was just a spoilt Yank and my father sent me money so he need n't worry about a thing . |
| 9 | I told the director to put that in his film but , of course , he thought I was just a mad old teapot . ’ |
| 10 | I was just a little kid , living at home and going to school — fifteen , but boy it was real exciting . |
| 11 | I had always been singing energetic music from the time I was just a little girl , and when I started getting songs like Sweet Nothings , I loved those songs , and I wanted to sing them . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll just put it here , ’ he said , taking it to a table which was just a long low slab of something transparent . |
| 13 | By where she was going she meant her uncertain , unpredictable future , not the hotel in Bloomsbury which was just a jumping-off ground . |
| 14 | and she was just a working girl , you know , and it was a worry to her as well . |
| 15 | She was just a young female human being , fit only to be somebody 's cousin or aunt . |
| 16 | She was just a young kid fronting a band , determined she was going to make it to the top — like her idol . ’ |
| 17 | But he merely looked embarrassed and said : ‘ Oh — hi ! ’ as he passed as if she was just a casual acquaintance . |
| 18 | True , she was important back home , while here she was just a small cog in the wheel of Samana life . |
| 19 | ‘ But she was just a gorgeous bitch , ’ Fen continued . |
| 20 | and one lady was told by someone who kissed her first , first kiss , said to her , she was just a natural |
| 21 | This morning she was just a limp nightdress that needed washing . |
| 22 | Edward Carrington had wondered if he was drunk , or if she was just a dreadful tease , mocking the Englishman of European myth . |
| 23 | She was just a common slut , making trouble , just like you — chasing other women 's men . ’ |
| 24 | I preferred to think she was just a jealous bitch . |
| 25 | Henry would sob , ‘ she was just a quiet , ordinary housewife … ’ |
| 26 | The master had been wildly in love with the governess , you see , ma'am , although she was just a plain little thing , and when she disappeared , he almost went mad . |
| 27 | Nutty had done it , for God 's sake , and she was just a fat girl ( well , not so fat any longer , but still a girl ) . |
| 28 | Under the mussed hair and mace clothes she was just a big-eyed honey , a sack-addict and dick-follower , same as all the rest . |
| 29 | They could n't hold one with a defendant who was just a mangled lump of flesh . ’ |
| 30 | I thought all I was to you was just a good lay . ’ |