Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] just [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marion Howells and her daughter Kayleigh were asleep just a few feet from a window which was shattered by the blasts . |
| 2 | Or were these just a few isolated sadists ? |
| 3 | Was that just a shadow by the house , or was someone hiding there , watching her ? |
| 4 | But erm did that have a message , or was that just a fun thing for you to do ? |
| 5 | It was nearly four in the morning by now , and Boy was ready to sleep ; not exhausted , but content , knowing that the night was perfect just the way it was . |
| 6 | It was all just a moment 's mental aberration ! |
| 7 | ‘ It was all just a wee misunderstanding . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps , he concluded , in his letter terminating their correspondence for months to come , it was all just a terrible nightmare which would only be understood later ? |
| 9 | It was all just a big adventure . |
| 10 | Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body . |
| 11 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 12 | Helen replied enigmatically that it was all just a question of experience . |
| 13 | It was all just a sort of angry joke because the rest of the gang , and Ashton in particular , would n't agree with him about the best way to fill holes in . |
| 14 | But he was n't frightened , because he knew that it was all just a joke , a little comedy of the kind fathers like to play with their sons . |
| 15 | Maybe it was all just a game to him , these stirring pulses and loaded glances , and chemical reactions . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control . |