Example sentences of "there [was/were] just [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the second sheet er of D One , the responsibility statement , er there were just a couple of boxes er ticked . |
| 2 | There were just a handful of hear-hears when Mellor said his ‘ cheap and sordid ’ affair was not a resigning offence . |
| 3 | There was just no winning with this man . |
| 4 | There was just no meeting of minds on the weapons issue . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was just no point in remaining on the premises when you knew you had to go , as Muldoon had said . |
| 7 | Her family were good , but a long way away and there was just no future at all . |
| 8 | ‘ They served all their time and then there was just no future for them . |
| 9 | But then streets disappeared altogether and there was just a mass of houses running into one another with the occasional alleyway between them . |
| 10 | There was just a kind of suspicious boredom . |
| 11 | Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick . |
| 12 | He arrived at the bridge , walked over it then back again , he looked over the parapet at the shining metals , the line curved away round a curve ; he looked around , everything was quiet , the moon had come out and there was just a touch of frost in the air . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And afterwards there was just a feeling of let-down , of wanting him to hold her and kiss her and pet her like a little girl . |
| 15 | While ELT publishing was still in its youth — in the days when both toes and fingers were needed to count the number of UK ELT publishers — one might have been forgiven for believing there was just a trace of the treasure hunt in its approach to the stern commercial discipline of market development . |
| 16 | And I said we just come out of the drive went across the road and there was just a bus behind us and erm I said the car almost came to a halt . |
| 17 | In Jean et Blonde , the hero 's beloved , although English , is described in terms of perfection , and the fact that ‘ There was just a suspicion in her speech/ That she had not been born at Pontoise ’ is a very minor and venial offence against courloisie . |
| 18 | Felipe came in just behind her and Maggie spun round while there was just a moment of privacy . |
| 19 | ‘ Franzia , ’ he said , and there was just a hint of Scottish burr . |
| 20 | ‘ There was just the smell of the gunsmoke and the blood on his shirt and the killers had gone . ’ |
| 21 | She did n't know how time passed , or how long it took the wild shrill crying to fade back into the sky ; but at last there was just the sound of the rain and the wind . |
| 22 | Now there was just the matter of the snake . |
| 23 | They cast a shadow a mile wide , within which there was just the howl of the gale , clouds of dust and the occasional flurry of hail . |
| 24 | Finally there was just the fitting of the cowlings for the last time . |
| 25 | " There was just the thing about the entrance fee , sir . |
| 26 | There was just the hint of a question in his tone . |
| 27 | Doyle realised that there was just the hint of a smell of animal about the man . |
| 28 | At the extreme , nuclear power poses the risk that if the reaction inside the core should get out of control , or even if there was just the failure of a vital pipe or valve , even larger quantities of radiation would enter the human environment . |