Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 2 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 3 | The prosecution allege these scratches had been inflicted just an hour earlier by Mrs Chandler as she fought back during the brutal sex attack . |
| 4 | Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier . |
| 5 | Panic set in — a teenage boy who had appeared in a film for US TV had been murdered just a couple of months before . |