Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [was/were] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we were just now with the research then talk about questionnaires . |
| 2 | you have to go and my dad where where it was just clean and you could just sit on it but nowhere Sarah 's side . |
| 3 | I 'd never have come back to Liverpool only the firm sent me here to fix something up on the docks twelve months before this lot started , so I was just unlucky . ’ |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Because of the operation I am restricted in the physical activity I can do , so I was just messing about with music tapes after the operation when I got around to singing . |
| 5 | The master had been wildly in love with the governess , you see , ma'am , although she was just a plain little thing , and when she disappeared , he almost went mad . |
| 6 | Although she was just yards from the safety of nearby houses she was too frightened to call out . |
| 7 | Once she was just a village … |
| 8 | Once she was just a village … |
| 9 | no , but the spiders , I remember that one that got , was on the daddy-longlegs and he was just sitting there and he would n't move and no one would walk down the stairs , so we were just giving it pouf pouf and all throwing things at him trying to get him to go . |
| 10 | The potential to encourage lifestyle changes that would make retailing more environmentally sustainable are more limited than they were just a decade ago . |
| 11 | Hanging back so they were just at the limit of vision , she followed them through the tunnels of the complex , occasionally passing other personnel or soldiers , who ignored her to concentrate on their search for the fugitive . |
| 12 | Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ So it was just a front ? ’ |
| 15 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 16 | I discovered there was room for 10 bells , so it was just too tempting . |
| 17 | If I were just starting zandering from the beginning I would not even consider night fishing for them until I had got my act together in the daytime . |
| 18 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 19 | ‘ If I was just a film actor maybe I would have done because that 's where all the films get made . |
| 20 | Oh well , that sounds like everybody else , cos I was just saying to Ann that Ian and erm Martin they 've had high temperatures and |
| 21 | Cos I was just gon na pay for this then . |
| 22 | Ah cos I was just lusting after , no no no no no no , no , no |
| 23 | It was very tiring work , and it kept me busy so that I did not look up and see the Hispaniola until she was just half a mile away from me ! |
| 24 | Look like you was just about to say something then ! |
| 25 | Emmie felt frightened as if she were just going to jump into deep water . |
| 26 | If she was just a pop star she would not be able to do it , ’ said Mel Bush . |
| 27 | But he merely looked embarrassed and said : ‘ Oh — hi ! ’ as he passed as if she was just a casual acquaintance . |
| 28 | For all I knew she was with you , but if she was just a visitor , I had to make sure she would be all right . |
| 29 | She said — and I do n't know if she was just bullshitting me , ’ and here Blufton opened his palms in a gesture of frankness , ‘ that she 'd found out the dates when a couple of lorries were due at Dover . |
| 30 | Feeling a little dizzy at being caught in the whirlwind of Faye 's enthusiasm , and wondering if she was just imagining a slightly brittle , overwrought quality to it this morning , Belinda listened to several more of Faye 's ideas for ‘ Getting Tom to notice you as a woman ’ . |