Example sentences of "were just the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While her parents , Ciesinski says , ‘ were just the kind of people who wanted their kids to do whatever we wanted ’ , she and her sister Katherine , who is twenty-one months older , both found themselves moving towards careers in opera . |
| 2 | There were just the mist and the empty roads , and the far-of crowing of cockerels in the dawn . |
| 3 | Australia again provided the answer with Mitchelton 's elegant and keenly-priced ‘ 89 Late Picked Muscat ( Tesco , £4.19 ) , whose rich , sweet flavours were just the ticket . |
| 4 | ‘ Then when I saw you I realised suddenly that you were just the friend who would help to make it all a success . |
| 5 | ‘ My brother Charles seemed to naïvely imagine you were just the person to put everything right , ’ she said , picking her words carefully , trying to control the fury chilling her inside . |
| 6 | I knew sexual love and had a love for those very close to me — perhaps half a dozen people in all — but for the rest of the world , well , they really were just the Mafia . |
| 7 | The Cajun Kings were just the job , as was John . |
| 8 | Now the other side we did n't have one at all , we did , it were just the path down . |
| 9 | Hubble 's discovery that the universe was expanding , and the realization of the insignificance of our own planet in the vastness of the universe , were just the starting point . |
| 10 | There were just the whitehorn and brier of the hedges , the green ridge of the lane inside the wheel tracks , the wild strawberries starting to darken on the banks . |
| 11 | ‘ I think my parents were just the sort of people who did not like staying in one place for very long . |
| 12 | They were just the sort of purchasers on whom peasants relied . |