Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] just [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was still terribly young and anyway , I think I was just a boy to her … any boy … and she wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed . ’ |
| 2 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 3 | So I was just a bit of sport . |
| 4 | He seemed real and solid ; it was myself who felt weightless as though I was just a conduit for all these sensations . . |
| 5 | I was just a piece of luggage to be labelled and sent wherever they wanted . |
| 6 | But , in 1984 , 1 had one of these crash courses of methadone , 14 days , which was just a piss in the can . |
| 7 | They wanted this colossal rent which was just a recipe for bankruptcy , ’ said Mr Anderson . |
| 8 | Mick Ronson : ‘ After the tour , we recorded the album , ‘ Pin-Ups ’ , an album which was just a collection of songs that David really liked from the 60's period , and shortly afterwards , we went to Italy for a holiday . |
| 9 | The dancing was to good old rock and roll music , and even those who were just a twinkle in their father 's eye in the 6Os joined in with the jiving fun . |
| 10 | I tried to tell myself it was purely physical and you were just an object of desire , but I knew it was more than that . ’ |
| 11 | She was just a girl with a sweet smile and a pretty face , her hair drawn back into some kind of fishnet behind . |
| 12 | It was clear to him she was just a playmate of years long gone . |
| 13 | She was just a subject to be questioned . |
| 14 | He comforted himself by assuming that she was just a mother-figure to the young man and there could n't possibly be any sex in it . |
| 15 | She was just a fact of life . |
| 16 | When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all . |
| 17 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 18 | In eighteen oh six , erm a law was passed which said that all property of a woman went over to the man on their marriage , including herself , so the woman was no longer an individual , she was just the property of the man and she could be disciplined and punished if the man felt like it . |
| 19 | The kitchen itself was just a part of the landing ; there was a sink , a cold tap and a cooker … |
| 20 | To go to the movies was as natural as to walk in the streets and indeed the one was just an extension of the other . |
| 21 | On the second sheet er of D One , the responsibility statement , er there were just a couple of boxes er ticked . |
| 22 | There were just a handful of hear-hears when Mellor said his ‘ cheap and sordid ’ affair was not a resigning offence . |
| 23 | There was just no winning with this man . |
| 24 | There was just no meeting of minds on the weapons issue . |
| 25 | And , do you know , before the war we could turn the cows out in the lane outside the farm before breakfast on summer mornings to graze the hedgerows because there was just no traffic at that time . |
| 26 | There was just no point in remaining on the premises when you knew you had to go , as Muldoon had said . |
| 27 | Her family were good , but a long way away and there was just no future at all . |
| 28 | ‘ They served all their time and then there was just no future for them . |
| 29 | But then streets disappeared altogether and there was just a mass of houses running into one another with the occasional alleyway between them . |
| 30 | There was just a kind of suspicious boredom . |