Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said you were using me just as she had been used . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you were singing it just before the Worm came . ’ |
| 3 | there were four people at the last meeting er and two others from the department a male and a female who looked after the bits of the department but I can not now remember what their names were let me just see if I 've got my notes which were written on the inside of a British Airways flight ticket come in , hi ya |
| 4 | we 'd never , like I mean , I can remember in Plymouth dad saying when we get there , erm we 'll buy a television , we 'll have a television and we did n't know what he was talking about and he said it 's a wireless with pictures , you know , and our minds were boggling we just could n't understand it , and then of course that was another bit of bribery got us to come . |
| 5 | I said yeah we did n't know they were coming they just appeared . |
| 6 | ‘ There was no way I was paying them just to change money . |
| 7 | Well I did n't actually but he was arsed I just said oh thanks very much ! |
| 8 | ‘ I have been around too long to take anything for granted so when I saw which way the wind was blowing I just buckled down and got on with playing . ’ |
| 9 | Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright . |
| 10 | He said gon na try and last up to , I said well I 've got ta go so I 'll see how I go but I was shaking I just could n't ! |
| 11 | I said she had been trained properly , I was telling them just basically about Claire in general and just about the good of erm , things like things you like to talk about , and erm , so I just , I said , they cried poverty , I said , but you know , one minute she 's driving her old banger , and the next minute she 's got a K reg and outside the , |