Example sentences of "it [was/were] just [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months . |
| 2 | Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it . |
| 3 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 4 | You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of . |
| 5 | And when the sh when the relief came in the ship lay about a mile off the never came near the rock at all because it was just a mass of reefs you know and the ship lay about a mile off and then the launch came in with a crew of about half a dozen men and the officer the second mate usually in charge . |
| 6 | So those who say arti artificial abortion is unnatural , are I think er on a , on , on , skating on very thin ice , because you could equally well argue that it was just a continuation of a natural trend . |
| 7 | Broad , Gower and Lamb fell in quick succession and then it was just a case of mopping up . |
| 8 | For most English people it was just a case of sighing with relief that it was all over . |
| 9 | Thereafter it was just a case of hard riding the thirty miles through green Lothian , by Hailes and Haddington and Musselburgh , for Edinburgh , which he reached before nightfall . |
| 10 | I knew she had to come to me each time , it was just a case of sticking it out . |
| 11 | The farmer and his neighbours were all friends so it was just a case of asking them to keep an eye on their moggies , and spying on a few of the plumper-looking ones — successful hunters , we assumed . |
| 12 | Eventually we all agreed we wanted this fierce bark that was both harsh and metallic , after which it was just a case of refining it down until we settled on the precise tone we ended up using . |
| 13 | ‘ It was just a case of finding who they were . ’ |
| 14 | and it was just a case of erm pot luck , I would sort of brought it out and looked at it and , er no it was n't cooked , it was cooked on the edges so I turned it over and turned it round and put it back in again . |
| 15 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 16 | so when I got there it was just a case of clearing up . |
| 17 | But he knew what he was looking at , though to the untrained eye it was just a pile of minuscule fragments . |
| 18 | got this er , not , not hate , it was just a kind of |
| 19 | ‘ I think it was just a build-up of ongoing tension between them , ’ Gina admitted unhappily . |
| 20 | He did n't really mean it — it was just a ploy to be rid of Doreen . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It was just a sea of flames … they have all gone , children and everyone ’ |
| 22 | Mostly , it was just a way of keeping myself occupied . |
| 23 | He 'd had a couple of sessions with his union rep and had been told not to worry , it was just a way of filling some quota ; if anything , his job was probably more secure now than it had been before . |
| 24 | Of course he was n't serious , it was just a way of flirting , but she could n't let his statement go unchallenged . |
| 25 | It was just a sack of shit . |
| 26 | In the words of a close associate of mine , and professional northerner to boot , ‘ It was just a platform for a load of posey , irrelevant southerners to use The Smiths to gain publicity . ’ |
| 27 | We told them she was losing the baby , but they thought it was just a scam for her to get out of the cell . |
| 28 | ‘ It was just a toe in the water really . |
| 29 | We watched as the kite swept across the valley , ascending so high that it was just a speck in the distance , and then swooping gracefully over the horizon , to appear again from behind the next hill . |
| 30 | Boss George Graham said : ‘ We played badly against Leeds but I 'm hoping it was just a hiccup after six good wins in a row . |