Example sentences of "had been just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 2 | At first , like her many other activities , the home maintenance course at the Adult Education Centre had been just a desperate device to take her away from the boredom of George . |
| 3 | It was the third time in eight games that the margin of victory had been just two runs . |
| 4 | She had always been surrounded by people — and was still haunted by memories and bad dreams — but essentially had been just as solitary . |
| 5 | It had been just as he was leaving on a Sunday evening . |
| 6 | He had been just too young for the Korean War , and one day he told me that it was one of the experiences he regretted having missed . |
| 7 | Imogen had lived in Hampstead , and had been just such an attractive sixth-former when he had met her on a trip to the States . |
| 8 | The sixth , published in 1752 and dedicated to the Earl of Northumberland , had an elaborate frontispiece ( hitherto it had been just a large formal garden with a plantation in the distance ) etched and engraved by Edward Rooker ( 1711–74 ) , after a drawing by Samuel Wade of an allegorical group showing Britannia receiving the fruits of the earth . |
| 9 | Paul could n't get over how his headmaster had been just to see him which made him feel very important which I thank you for . |
| 10 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 11 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 12 | The previous X-ray of my lungs had been just before my operation in March . |
| 13 | Yes , two months ago she had been just one of the Pinehurst girls , and today she was the owner of a house and faced with the double problem of looking after her sister and providing a means of livelihood for them both . |
| 14 | His anger had been just barely visible to a carefully watching eye . |
| 15 | An attractive young woman in her mid-twenties , she had been just one year away from her final examinations as a solicitor when , two years earlier , she had been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy . |
| 16 | When local police were told of two female bodies on the beach , it had been just a nuisance . |
| 17 | Christopher Knox , defending , said O'Brian had been just 100 yards from where nine men were killed in the Gulf War friendly fire blunder . |
| 18 | By the end of 1969 his success had been just sufficient for him to collect some sponsorship for 1970 , when he raced in a Lotus 59 . |
| 19 | She had been just in time . |
| 20 | The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming , he said . |
| 21 | The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming in the next two months , said RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley . |
| 22 | Gielgud , too , through the agency of his mother , produced reviews to prove that the golden oldies of the classic past with whom Burton was being compared to his disadvantage had been just as slammed in their time . |
| 23 | ‘ We probably would n't have signed if it had been just SGI , ’ Ousley says . |
| 24 | Cedric had been just too young for the war , and for this he had never forgiven Fate . |
| 25 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
| 26 | So far as she 'd been concerned they had been just friends . |
| 27 | But it had been just just a wee little village then . |
| 28 | April , who until now had been just sitting there , at this point , to give her her due , showed symptoms of unease . |
| 29 | It had been just after Christmas ; she had worn a new pair of fur mittens her sister had given her . |
| 30 | Her face had been just the same then — interested but inscrutable — and she had taken a fiver off all of them . |