Example sentences of "were just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were just going to check that we were all right when Margot suddenly got quite excitable and delirious — so unlike her . ’ |
| 2 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 3 | I helped , you were just reading . ’ |
| 4 | They were just and merciful . |
| 5 | Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana . |
| 6 | But they were just at the design stage when early on a July morning in 1978 twelve passengers died in a fire on Mark 1 sleeping cars of the Penzance to Paddington overnight train . |
| 7 | New locomotive classes of the eighties were just five , all highpower main liners . |
| 8 | In the year to August , sales were just 1.2 per cent above a year ago . |
| 9 | In fact it worked out well for Fouroux , since most of his players ran into the sort of form which , if reproduced tonight , will make the Home Union 's players wish they were just that — at home . |
| 10 | Many were just beginning to see shares and unit trusts — bought two years ago before the crash of 1987 — regain those levels . |
| 11 | The ingredients were just right : three highly intelligent soloists ( Lynne Dawson , Anthony Rolfe Johnson and David Wilson-Johnson ) ; a small but alert choir ( excellently trained by Julian Clarkson ) ; a top-name period-instrument orchestra ; and a conductor not afraid to cherish every aspect of Haydn 's extraordinary score . |
| 12 | We were just about to leave when [ the girl ] called to [ the neighbourhood policemen ] . |
| 13 | It appeared that the naval guns , about five or six miles back in the English Channel , were either trying to break another German attack or were just shelling the enemy positions ! |
| 14 | These orphans and vagabonds were just one group among many that were virtually lawless in the disturbed countryside . |
| 15 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
| 16 | But what was suddenly seen as extraordinary was that the supernatural , the miraculous , and certain doctrines were just as present in the layers now believed to be the earliest as they were in the layers believed to be later . |
| 17 | Before 1948 we used to pretend that all such countries were just copies of the United Kingdom , except that , in place of the monarch , they had a Governor-General , who , we assured ourselves and them , represented the monarch . |
| 18 | The proceedings of Sir Paul Scoon after the American invasion were just as revolutionary — meaning validated by force not law — as had been the proceedings of the superseded military regime . |
| 19 | The trouble was they were just too far away to see things clearly , and also I could n't hear the sound . |
| 20 | We already knew films were just projected light , as a spin-off discovery from experimentation with Park Drives . |
| 21 | Slide shows were just as bad . |
| 22 | We were just in our early twenties by the time I left The Pistols , beginning to find our way in the world , starting to get more confidence . |
| 23 | At first you 'd think they were just looking but really they were turning things over and over in their hands to see how they were made and checking out the cut so they could rip them off . |
| 24 | Before they met me , Steve and Paul were just petty criminals , did n't know nothing about nothing . |
| 25 | They were meant to be a pro group while we were just starting out . |
| 26 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 27 | They were just little signs warning her that she had failed to keep Fenna the perfect secret that he had to be . |
| 28 | We had a big management shakeup in BHS when I could see that certain people were just not going to change their spots . |
| 29 | One of the reasons we developed a design-led retail business , offering our own unique products , was because we saw we could distance ourselves from other retailers who were just selling manufacturers ' products and discounting them and getting into constant competitive battles . |
| 30 | I think they were just going through the motions of what had worked before . |