Example sentences of "[pron] was just [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just far enough behind not to get caught up in the thick of it . |
| 2 | and they got cacked on and I was going oh no no no , I do n't smoke , do n't smoke , do n't smoke erm I was just down here with my boyfriend you know having a sly snog , you know |
| 3 | ‘ Guaranteed Not To Split ’ , it said on it — which was just as well as much later I had the initial idea for ‘ Anarchy ’ while messing around on it . |
| 4 | But I did n't get to the point of giving them names , which was just as well , because in the end they both had to go to market . |
| 5 | No one wanted proof or reasons , which was just as well … there were NO reasons . |
| 6 | Sam took Nutty and her team up in the car straight after the last lesson ; Nails had not been around which was just as well as the car did not hold more than five . |
| 7 | Which was just as well , as Jim was not ideally cut out to be a farmer ! |
| 8 | I did n't give them names , which was just as well because they both had to go to be killed . |
| 9 | Indeed he almost felt for music , wild dancing now : Winnie returned , with two wines , which was just as well as Rab had all but drained her glass . |
| 10 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 11 | It had been a wet , raw winter , with the ground waterlogged and streams running high ; but at least there had been little snow and the hill passes were open , which was just as well for a journey to mid-Annandale . |
| 12 | Which was just as well , as this time he came back after a very few minutes . |
| 13 | Which was just as well because Derek Jefferson , the managing director of the firm , was there as the stand-in caddie , and was similarly dressed in Supersight clothing . |
| 14 | Whitlock was the master of patience ; nothing ever seemed to rile him , which was just as well considering the simmering tension between Sabrina and Graham . |
| 15 | Nobody wanted any more , which was just as well , as there was n't much left and she could n't face hacking at the carcase . |
| 16 | There were one or two ladies in Baldersdale who were very good at midwifery , which was just as well when a baby was on the way and the doctor could n't get there in time , or the weather impeded him . |
| 17 | He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party . |
| 18 | No one knew him there , which was just as well . |
| 19 | Which was just as well . |
| 20 | Which was just as well , thought Folly , as she would hardly have known how to reply . |
| 21 | Her office , opening directly out of Luke 's big room , was pleasantly decorated , modern and well lit , which was just as well , for Luke had spoken the truth : a nine-to-five job this certainly was not ! |
| 22 | Ross seemed to know what he was doing — which was just as well , since it felt very weird to be travelling on what appeared to be the wrong side of the road . |
| 23 | Which was just as well . |
| 24 | He smiled — which was just as well . |
| 25 | Which was just as well . |
| 26 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
| 27 | There was no door between the kitchens and the alley at the back , only a curtain of brown and yellow beads that clicked when there was a breeze , which was just about never because it was summer and the only time the air moved was when Zervos waved his short arms or a truck went past outside . |
| 28 | None of this mess was of her making , yet she was just as much a prisoner as if she had been in gaol like Clive . |
| 29 | She was just very nearly unintelligible and her speech was full of that idiomatic ungrammaticalness which characterises the true dialect speaker . |
| 30 | My colleague who was just up here was talking about Gillian Sheppard who 's on the cover of Direct . |