Example sentences of "he [be] just the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because very often you , a father can be very keen on gardening and getting the children to help him is just the last thing . |
| 2 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 3 | He 's not much of a character , he 's sort of a cardboard character is n't he , he 's just the other man , the man that they want to marry Juliet . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's just the right man , ma'am , ’ said one of the villagers . |
| 5 | He 's not abnormal he 's just the living dead yeah death warmed up . |
| 6 | He 's just the Persian . |
| 7 | No , no two boys Andrew they think have got it , he 's just the little chubby one I do n't |
| 8 | ‘ He 's just the same , ’ Maggie said and continued on about the nurses ' home while Sheila bit her tongue . |
| 9 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 10 | Cor he 's just the same ! |
| 11 | He was just the hired thug . |
| 12 | Looking at him one was sure he was just the smartest , young man about town , but then when he spoke — Next to him sat Michael and Sean with a sombre Noreen between them . |
| 13 | So he simply made a convincing artificial one to hide his miniaturized booty , and the Vadinamia 's missed it — because when he left he was just the same as when he arrived . |