Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [was/were] just [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I cried when I got to the top , but I think that that was just a release of emotion . |
| 2 | Right that that was just a letter for reference anyway |
| 3 | Yeah that that was just the ideas it had . |
| 4 | Diane told herself that this was just a kind of paranoia on her part , an over-apprehension that came from reading too many doctor articles in women 's magazines , but it did n't make her any less uneasy . |
| 5 | ‘ In case you were thinking , ’ he concluded , ‘ that this was just a quarrel among blacks , a spot of faction-fighting . |
| 6 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 7 | Then I realized that this was just the beginning . |
| 8 | ‘ Little did I know that this was just the tip of an Iceberg , frozen on chat shows , enlarged on British Telecom commercials and now floating treacherously towards me . |
| 9 | The report acknowledged , however , that this was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 10 | Earlier that morning Wexford had quoted Justice Shallow and now , as he contemplated Jolyon Vigo 's house , he thought that this was just the sort of place Shallow might have lived in . |
| 11 | Considering that this was just the period when women were making history , Thompson has got it very wrong indeed . |
| 12 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 13 | and that was just a bowl of soup and a , a roll |
| 14 | Getting it out and that was just an armchair do n't know what they 'd do if they had to move the settee , but erm , that 's the difference in |
| 15 | Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy . |
| 16 | AND THAT WAS JUST THE START OF A THOROUGH RENOVATION THAT 'S TAKEN 20 YEARS TO COMPLETE . |
| 17 | If that was just a warning I did n't want to be around when they got really nasty . |
| 18 | er and I 'll be the first to recognize that and this was just a sort of the ball park stats that you were looking for . |
| 19 | And we 've now reached a situation in which there 's something over twenty percent of our streets is multiple occupation , erm and this is noise and other activities in relation to that are the things that cause the sort of low level of concern , and this was just the peak on top of that of major aggravation . |
| 20 | If you looked at it philosophically , the whole thing about big and small was just a matter of size . |
| 21 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 22 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 23 | And I do n't know it was truth he said I 'm just collecting all the mole skins for somebody 's mo For a coat , but that was just a story I think . |
| 24 | But that was just a full-dress rehearsal . |
| 25 | We er we got very close to beating Bellevue at Bellevue which was okay I mean everybody 's a bit rusty so and we were experimenting with tyres and everything and er it was only a challenge , but it was nice to get the first meeting on the way and er I was very impressed by some of er the team members of what I saw , I knew er team mate Dean Bargger was doing particularly well scoring 11 points and er he 's really a promising er youngster which I think we can get a lot of use out of , and er in general I mean you know Ellis Stevens was doing particularly well as well , so if those two can keep doing well during the season , then okay mine had a few problems , she only scored 3 points , but that was just a one-off so yeah I thing we look quite strong on paper again now . |
| 26 | I I th I thought I thought it was I S actually from the way you said it the first time , but that was just a guess . |
| 27 | But that was just the way I 'd learned to think in the mountains . |
| 28 | She wanted to dine with him , of course she did — but that was just the trouble . |
| 29 | well they are now , my daughter now has a proper bum bag , but this was just a school , purse for school , just for break time . |
| 30 | But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like . |