Example sentences of "[was/were] just a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | All types of medicines reputed to be the equal of branded goods except that generally they were just a load of rubbish . |
2 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
3 | 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 . ’ |
4 | In fact I cried when I got to the top , but I think that that was just a release of emotion . |
5 | It was just a sack of shit . |
6 | ‘ It was just a case of finding who they were . ’ |
7 | Vic said he thought two camps were a good idea because there would have been two originally and it would psychologically prepare the Indians for playing their ancestors , which I said was just a rationalisation of elitism . |
8 | Our street was just a row of brick terrace house , and we did n't have gardens at the front . |
9 | ‘ I suppose the newspaper which started it would say that it was just a bit of fun . |
10 | ‘ It was just a bit of fun , ’ says Brannen . |
11 | ‘ Although George Graham is not condoning what I 've done , he knows it was just a bit of over-exhuberance and a bit of silliness . |
12 | ‘ It was just a bit of crack , but curiously enough it gave me my first taste of playing in public , something I had not yet done back home . ’ |
13 | So I was just a bit of sport . |
14 | I did not realise it was just a question of dialect ; I thought it was a question of grammar or , if you do not like that word , of logic . |
15 | It was just a question of time . |
16 | If it was just a question of effort , the pit would be in no danger . ’ |
17 | It was just a question of Mind over Matter , I thought , and tried to steel myself against the physical effects of an increasingly rough ride . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | If you do n't believe in religion , you might think that er , the world was just kind of here for no particular reason , and er , that human existence was just a kind of accident or something happen happened , and er , has no has no greater significance . |
21 | I was n't really aware of who he was , he was just a kind of mate . |
22 | Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick . |
23 | Typical of young shearwaters , it was just a ball of grey down with a beak sticking out . |
24 | When Jancey asked him to help me out , he thought it was just a neighbour under threat . |
25 | and that was just a bowl of soup and a , a roll |
26 | ‘ I regretted it immediately but it was just a lot of frustration . ’ |
27 | She was just a fact of life . |
28 | At that time the use of videotape to enable prerecording and editing was just a gleam of enthusiasm in the laboratory scientist 's eye . |
29 | There was just a touch of sarcasm in her voice , which cut like a razor , and she knew she 'd drawn blood when he stared coldly back at her , the smile fading from his face . |
30 | ‘ It was just a touch of summer flu or something . |