Example sentences of "[was/were] just [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it were just like rain dripping ! |
| 2 | I was in a wine bar the other day and it was just before the opening of Stanstead , a few weeks before , and I met a chap in there who worked in the airport and we were just in conversation and he said , asked him what he did , and he said , ‘ I 'm basically on temporary contract preparing for the Queen coming to open the airport . ’ |
| 3 | They were just in time … |
| 4 | We were just in time to watch the evening rush hour . |
| 5 | But by a kindly error of the doorman 's watch they were just in time . |
| 6 | And , and really it was just as experiment , and erm , the reason I put it in was , I thought , well , you know , this is , this is an ignored book , and as you , as you found to your cost , it 's actually hard to come by , harder to come by than I expected . |
| 7 | Well , it was just into lunchtime and word came to stop — but almost immediately that was changed , and we were working through to get the ship finished . |
| 8 | And he came at half past seven and he cleaned it and he looked at it , and he said er it was n't anything that he could see , he thinks it was just down draught , but we 've had winds before . |
| 9 | Yorick 's flat was just off Church Row in Hampstead . |
| 10 | It was just past mid-day , and noon does not dim the ruin 's eeriness . |
| 11 | By the time he climbed stiffly out of bed he knew it was just past noon and had the events of Rotherhithe roughed out in his mind like a draft report . |
| 12 | It was just past dawn and she believed she had n't slept : not that night , nor the previous night , nor the night before that . |
| 13 | But you see there was always this thought that it was always to better yourself that you were doing this that your Orcadian was just for home about and among yourselves and what it did n't really matter . |
| 14 | If it was just for money , then we would have had a ransom demand by now . ’ |
| 15 | The called it the Silly Women Running Idle , but that was just for fun . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , that was just for effect . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought that was just for lighting , ’ said Gurder . |
| 18 | But for Maxim it was still the other way around : the landscape beyond the train window was just for show ; secretly he knew those buildings were mere façades , without interior floors , furniture or live people . |
| 19 | The sensation had come from Dexter 's imagination , a reminder that murder often had a smiling face and was just at home in bourgeois drawing-rooms as in seedy bed and breakfast hotels . |
| 20 | It was just on midnight . |
| 21 | Well I 'd just got there , it was just between quarter past and ten past and twelve were there . |
| 22 | It was just above knee-length and fitted her slender curves perfectly . |
| 23 | It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house . |
| 24 | But er , that 's a great advantage when compared with the newly appointed British Ambassador in Washington , who having just arrived in Washington , er picked up the telephone and heard a voice at the other end , say , what do you want for Christmas , it was just before Christmas , what do you want for Christmas , and he thought hastily and , did n't want to be impolite or too greedy , so he said a small box of crystallised fruit , and put the telephone down , and a few momen a few moments later he put on the radio , and the announcer said , we 've just conducted our normal review of the Ambassadors ' wishes for Christmas , er , the the Ambassadors in Washington . |
| 25 | Yeah oh of course it was just before Christmas . |
| 26 | It was just before mid-day when Lewis braked sedately outside the Downes 's residence at the furthest end of Lonsdale Road . |
| 27 | Well they had to get their own machines out an there 's one old boy had a stitcher , a be he looked ninety , he probably was n't , and er he was chu , it was just after lunch and he was chewing apple and old Jo , I was working with so you know , Jim someone 's I said look at the silly old B , I said ! |
| 28 | It was just after midnight . |
| 29 | It was just after midnight on August 15 , 1969 . |
| 30 | It was just after noon . |