Example sentences of "[was/were] just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expressing the view of some delegates that the conference had merely been used as a forum to air US views , Brice Lalonde , the French Secretary of State for the Environment , said afterwards : " We have the feeling we were just invited to listen . " |
| 2 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 3 | Sorry to disappoint you , but I 'm afraid you were just pipped for the star prize . |
| 4 | and th the so called democratic , you know , choice of all these poli , all these MP 's and what not which would comprise parliament and government and head of the Tory party at the time you know i it really their voices on the , on the the cabinet you know , they were , they were just destroyed ! |
| 5 | Prior to ninety one two when independent taxation came in banks and building societies were just taxed at source , as it is today . |
| 6 | We were just deprived of doing what we do — just going in the studio and making records . |
| 7 | I was dying of jealousy for guys whose faces were just cratered with seeping yellow pus . |
| 8 | We were just drunk as usual , but everybody was arguing with each other and it came to a head and we had a fight . |
| 9 | No one was placed except the nine of us who were sitting at Robin 's table , and we were just asked quietly when we went in ‘ to go to the table with the birthday cake on it ’ . |
| 10 | We 're not told and it does n't say on your ballot paper please be sure to remember you 're voting on what you think is right rather than what is in your personal interest , you were just asked to vote . |
| 11 | Well he star I think probably the first He must have been a joiner for a wee while before he was you were just asked to do this the same I suppose as any other job any other joiner job |
| 12 | This works slightly differently from the one Kev 's suggesting , coz we did n't have to go through auctions and all that , we were just given a list of players with their prices , and given 20 million to spend . |
| 13 | These men were just given livelihoods were n't they ? |
| 14 | every , but all , all the draughtsman unless they were just called |
| 15 | but they can come and go , I mean the year four they lost two teachers in the last two weeks cos their husbands got other jobs and the contracts were just terminated and , so it 's quite a , a moveable circle of people , er , but just , they have actually sacked one of the lads that came out with us , they wo n't be renewing his contract next year , he only had a two year contract |
| 16 | So that when we get to the mock interview stage , no , no one can actually back out , no one can pretend that they were just sent by their council . |
| 17 | Not all connections were glued — some of the pipes and bends were just pushed together and a bead of silicone run round the outside to seal them . |
| 18 | And er we they used to fill there They were just filled with woodcuttings . |
| 19 | And it looks to me as if you two lovely people were just made for each other ! ’ |
| 20 | He were just made me laugh come on then I 'll just come out with you , in the garden . |
| 21 | Those competitors ’ meetings were just attended by a group of distressed individuals who wanted to know where they were going . ’ |
| 22 | They were just stored in the caverns |
| 23 | We were just locked in , no food or anything . |
| 24 | We were just locked up all the time , with half an hour exercise a day and no books to read . |
| 25 | But it is equally harmful to swing to the opposite extreme : to claim that the enterprise of becoming literate is hard only because teachers make it so , and that children would succeed perfectly well if they were just provided with suitable books and left to themselves . |
| 26 | Well no they were just described as tinkies . |
| 27 | It then erm , they would , they went out in one complete entity you see and the trolley wires were just taken down . |
| 28 | And just as bad , even worse , in in terms of personal consequences , all the sort of corner shops in , particularly the the Asian off licences come grocers , were were I mean were were just looted . |
| 29 | either erm because redundancies are coming up , or Imperial trustees down , they were just got ridden of as a way of moving them off the trust . |
| 30 | either erm because redundancies are coming or as Imperial Trustees found , they were just got ridden of as a way of moving them off the trust . |