Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] not just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was not just looking for the most experienced people but there were other attributes I wanted to see , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Ah but I was n't just meaning on the concrete bit . |
| 3 | ‘ I was n't just trapped in the tower , I also had the key to the door . |
| 4 | Blushing suggested you were n't just lying , but that you had something to hide . |
| 5 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you want me to stay ? ’ she asked simply , and he knew she was not just talking about leaving the room . |
| 7 | And cer the determination of the women , that we were n't gon na be starved back to work , we were n't gon na be forced back to work , we were n't just gon na end in chaos and some of us going back and some of us staying out , I think it was the women possibly talking to their husbands or , and just reassuring each other , you know that helped us no end . |
| 8 | Much of the impetus behind such thinking has come from dowsers who realized that they were not just picking up underground water but something else , which they called telluric force . |
| 9 | But they were not just pawns in the political game : students had their own ideas which will be addressed in this chapter on Chinese students in mid-1980s . |
| 10 | ‘ They were not just going off on their own into the bush they were in tourist locations . |
| 11 | They were n't just humming a chorus of ‘ North Sea Sunrise ’ , the jazz tribute to the industry which the Norwegian contractor Kvaerner commissioned for its reception at Aberdeen 's Beach Ballroom . |
| 12 | ‘ My God , they were n't just hitting it sideways , some of them were n't even making contact . |
| 13 | All them years since , and she was a widow and , and she was er ever so nice , lovely home and clean , but the bed was , it , it was n't just flock it were part Taylor |
| 14 | It was n't just gossip , was it ? |
| 15 | So those but Fantasia passes are very similar , I just turned mine turned mine round she saw it and went she showed me a blank yellow so I did n't thought it perhaps a different pass but it was n't just turned it round on her . |
| 16 | It 's a pity it was n't just translated the it . |
| 17 | Singer Sebastien Bach , at No. 22 with Youth Gone Wild , says : ‘ I wanted kids to know it was n't just junkies or gays who get that disease . |
| 18 | It was n't just going to be papers , it could be health clinics , bookshops , making a network of people sharing lifestyles and indeed an economic base . |
| 19 | It was n't just to please her companions , but because she was beginning to have doubts about her original opinion . |
| 20 | ‘ It was n't just doing it , it was being afraid and getting there , like Grandfather 's story about Jamie hunting . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It was n't just print — living ideas came out of it . ’ |
| 22 | She felt it was not just chance that they met so often near her home , yet he only talked about what was happening in other parts of the world , never of people they knew or of his feelings towards her . |
| 23 | When Bilqis , Queen of Sheba , travelled from her domain in southern Arabia to visit King Solomon , it was not just to pay a social call . |
| 24 | It was not just launching a perfume , it was giving birth to a perfume , ’ said she , who had definitely seen the shape of the bottle but still chose to stick with this metaphor . |
| 25 | It hinted at the indiscrimination of death , that it was not just confined to the sick or injured . |
| 26 | And he gets up and sees the situation and remember , he said , Jesus was n't out for joy ride , he was n't just passing an evening relaxing and unwinding and resting away from the crowd , he had gone into the boat for a purpose , he was going to the other side , and no storm was gon na stop him getting there ! |
| 27 | He did n't know what it was , but now it was n't small talk and he was n't just ticking over any more . |
| 28 | So he was n't just saying it . |
| 29 | He was n't just doing it for himself any more . ’ |
| 30 | He was n't just pontificating , he was n't just starting out things he thought about , he and and , ideas that had come into his head , he spoke as one who had authority and because of that they heard him . |