Example sentences of "was just [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know who went off for Batty , I was just relieved when he did . |
| 2 | I was just thankful that I got out when I did . |
| 3 | Mr Healey here went on about Labour 's success in the Euro-elections ; I said it was just mid-term and all that ; and he said , With respect , no . |
| 4 | David Harper said : ‘ At first we thought it was just stunned and then we realised it was really in a very bad way . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I got hassle all the way through school because I had the wrong haircut and would n't wear uniform and I was just annoying and disruptive . |
| 6 | She was just drunk and seeking attention . |
| 7 | I was just convinced that they , whoever they were , would never find me . |
| 8 | I was just clumsy and it happened . ’ |
| 9 | It was just possible that Floss had got shut in one of them . |
| 10 | But it was just possible that Ash 's own Vico had marginalia missed even by the indefatigable Cropper . |
| 11 | Of course it was just possible that something had delayed them ; they might even now be hurrying up the steep incline to the station . |
| 12 | It was just possible that the painkillers she had taken for her shoulder had reacted with the alcohol , but it seemed unlikely . |
| 13 | And if he were mistaken , it was just possible that the lass was with child . |
| 14 | The best season for an eastwards voyage was already past , though it was just possible that we might run far north and cross in the high latitudes where , even in summer , we could expect fog , rain and cold . |
| 15 | At 500 yards distance it was just possible that we could have been mistaken . |
| 16 | It was just possible that the kidnappers might show it to him . |
| 17 | It was just possible that he 'd discovered something about Puddephat . |
| 18 | French was just possible as there would be no oral examination . |
| 19 | ‘ Killed in action ’ was at least a positive end , but ‘ Prisoner of war ’ — waiting for two or three years for other people to win the war for you — was just ineffectual and pitiable , an end which was also not an end . |
| 20 | ‘ I was kicked out by my landlord and put in this hostel which was just awful and I had to get away so I came here — I do n't know why , really , I … ’ |
| 21 | Boys fancied you when your make-up was just right and your freckles did n't show and your hair was tidy . |
| 22 | She is a different filly when the going is in her favour and everything was just right when she beat Brief Truce in France . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Money never bothered me , I was just pleased that people enjoyed my music . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I was just numb while it was happening , I felt weak . |
| 25 | After the 1–0 defeat he said : ‘ The quality of our passes into the box was just diabolical and we had no one apart from Steve Claridge showing any aggression in there . |
| 26 | That the boy was just simple and given to playing stupid jokes . |
| 27 | I was just stupid but I was as I say , since Oct erm when was it ? |
| 28 | It was just similar and then they had the little hall then and the farmers women all did it , the big farmers but the women did it . |
| 29 | He was just upset and near to tears . |
| 30 | The Front 's formation the previous spring had been backed by Ferlinghetti , Rexroth , Bill Graham — whose role as a rock promoter around the Filmore ballroom was just emerging and Ralph J. Gleason , then a little known San Francisco Chronicle columnist , later one of the main inspirations , and writers on Jann Wenner 's Rolling Stone , just a year away from its first edition . |