Example sentences of "[was/were] just [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To Judith they were just faces in a photograph .
2 After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone Park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them .
3 After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them .
4 the events were just part of a programme of special attractions running until the end of September .
5 That the compliments were just part of the softening-up process . ’
6 A few moments later the two heroes were just specks under a cloud of dust , heading down towards the charcoal city .
7 My girl-friend and I were just making-up after a quarrel .
8 He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years
9 ‘ He said Jack was just part of the system ! ’
10 Now , if the moon was just part of the earth the moon 's gravity would be adding to the earth and then there would be generally more gravity all round .
11 ‘ It was just part of the job , ’ says a phlegmatic Ruscoe .
12 Mhm , that was just part of the job then
13 The palace complex was just part of the Conducator 's plans to transform Romania as a whole .
14 It was just part of the routine .
15 A Church already existed at Old Chiswick , for the folk who lived along that part of the River Thames , or used the ferry crossing which was just west of the eyot there .
16 ‘ But I do n't even mean anything like that ; that was just background for the film .
17 Although she was just yards from the safety of nearby houses she was too frightened to call out .
18 That was just exuberance on the part of the children and teachers when they chopped off all her hair and Super Glued it to her chin .
19 And it it was quite strange , it was just sort of a row of houses
20 They 'd have a little fancy shawl or My Grandma used to always have a fancy shawl that Just a small thing that came , you know , a bit down their back and And my Grandma used to wear erm a white much It was just thing like a baby 's A cotton thing , tied with a just a string , you know just to erm just a tie under her chin and it would have a wee bit of lace s on the corner , or the or the end of the tie , that was through the day and it was all ruffled , and then when she was on holiday and came into town she had a a thing on her head made of velvet and it all had fancy little things in it .
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