Example sentences of "[pers pn] was just [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 No but I was just sort of testing you out to see , you know , how you reacted .
2 I was just sort of helping .
3 Well the grey come through and I was just sort of I thought I ca n't wait all those years with dark hair .
4 No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and
5 It was late at night and I decided , I was just sort of talking I 'd say , I ca n't get rid of this headache , and I do n't know what I 'm gon na do , I do n't whether I should just not worry about it cos I 'm not that old , and I was really pouring my heart out to him , and he turns round and he says , yeah , you need a new clutch you really need a new clutch .
6 and then when she got it she was just sort of oh I 'm buying a house
7 Yeah , she was just sort of coming down the stairs yeah it 's alright , you know , had a word with her
8 So it was just kind of what ever enthusiasm there was washed away with that .
9 I do n't care what it was , it was just kind of , you know , a story that they might know .
10 ‘ It could have been nasty but in the end I think it was just case of exchanging insurance details , ’ said Insp Madison .
11 Although she remembered the words perfectly well , Constance merely said , ‘ Oh , nothing , it was just part of your general racket . ’
12 It was just part of life . ’
13 It was just part of the routine .
14 It was just part of our tradition . "
15 It was just part of the job , ’ says a phlegmatic Ruscoe .
16 ‘ I wish I had n't given up , ’ Alison was saying , ‘ it was just lack of courage . ’
17 Or perhaps it was just lack of choice , the need for a home of her own and a child .
18 And there used to be sort of a mush made from haricot beans too that people said were baked beans and they were n't it was just sort of white mushy erm white haricot beans with a sort of red colouring poured over the top .
19 because , you come back here and all the Scottish women were vast and they lost their figure 's and it was just sort of almost taken for granted that you have a baby and you loose your figure , but you do n't mind because you 've got the children .
20 It was just sort of ‘ Shall we take him down then ? ’ and Bob 's your unc . ’
21 And it it was quite strange , it was just sort of a row of houses
22 And there 's nothing wrong with her it was just sort of it 's just nerves is n't it ?
23 Yeah well why that happened , Oh I think it was just pressure of work you know , she had so much else to do .
24 Oh come on you can be on my side cos it was obvious , like , he was just sort of sat there .
25 Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but
26 Yeah the carcasses , and they was in some of them was just sort of like died there and that was it , it was just there , and it rotted away and there was all
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