Example sentences of "was just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How they did n't see me , I 'll never know , 'cos I was just huddled up in the corner of the alley . |
| 2 | And then she came bounding back and could n't stop herself , went straight into Doreen , knocked Doreen off her legs completely , and she was just sprawled out on all fours , it was just hilarious , we , in fact we did an action replay on that because you had to see it again to believe it . |
| 3 | And I said , well I know nothing about that kind of music but that 's the impression I got , I was just stood there at the bar thinking that last , last Friday it 's not the same one , thinking , you know , this is just this is just very samey it |
| 4 | But all this time , all this time I 've thought — she was just gone . ’ |
| 5 | It was just gone eleven when , passing by her desk , Leo advised her casually , ‘ Vass is back . |
| 6 | I mean the thing happened , the float indeed was just split . |
| 7 | ‘ They shot part of it outside in this lot which was just covered with dogshit . |
| 8 | She was just covered in dressings and things . |
| 9 | Whether she was just fainted or stunned from the shock or whether she was seriously injured , I would n't like to comment on that . ’ |
| 10 | He gazed again at the madonna he had sat beside when her child was just born . |
| 11 | It was just pushed through the letterbox . ’ |
| 12 | It was just assumed that she had some ulterior motive in coming here , and she was n't allowed to defend herself . |
| 13 | And at the end , when they flipped on the lights , ‘ everyone was just riveted to him . |
| 14 | ‘ He said he was just asked to do a job — and it 's working . ’ |
| 15 | It was just accepted that one day Sara would have a little inheritance . |
| 16 | That was just done , I put the kettle on and just I see you coming up the road . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's a real system now , whereas in the past , squash was just seen as a public school sort of pastime . |
| 18 | It was just seen as a normal part of the job then really . |
| 19 | I was barefoot and cold ; all I had on were my underpants and my dressing gown which , by this time , was just ripped to shreds . |
| 20 | The the one that , I know which one you mean the one that was just renovated . |
| 21 | I was just damaged goods , another misfit , another over-educated , under-motivated loser who had missed his chance and drifted into the Sargasso Sea of EFL work . |
| 22 | Or maybe it was just lost . |
| 23 | I was just lost . |
| 24 | Well it was just their own The the found of the thing was just built of big stones round about the size of the bottom of a stack . |
| 25 | But then , the day was just begun . |
| 26 | His face was just pasted over a badly formed skull . |
| 27 | The first round on March 24 had failed to produce a winner because the turnout had fallen well short of the required 50 per cent , but in the second round the required 25 per cent turnout was just exceeded . |
| 28 | ‘ I had to climb out again to get some air and when I went back in I was just beaten back . |
| 29 | One had had such widespread cancer , after her operation she was just sent home to die . |
| 30 | having your normal period was n't ever mentioned , I was just sent along to the lav , my sister came with me , she said ‘ you wear this ’ , and that was that — My mother never even mentioned it … you got married and you had children , I did n't know there was such a thing that you could not have them and it just went on and on . |