Example sentences of "[was/were] just [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 2 | So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months . |
| 3 | On the second sheet er of D One , the responsibility statement , er there were just a couple of boxes er ticked . |
| 4 | All the other times were just a way of reminding myself of the realities and provoking you at the same time . |
| 5 | An eighteenth century travelling commode from the Duke and Duchess of Wellington , a pair of Georgian chairs from the people of Bermuda and wrought-iron gates from the neighbouring village of Tetbury were just a sample of the cornucopia of presents which had descended on the royal couple . |
| 6 | Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it . |
| 7 | Um Thomas Carlisle um wen was very much impressed by the work of people like Wordsworth and Coleridge because they were just a bit before him and he actually went and met Coleridge . |
| 8 | There is still a strong political pressure towards the Gradgrind model of curriculum design , as though education were just a game of ‘ Trivial Pursuit ’ . |
| 9 | All types of medicines reputed to be the equal of branded goods except that generally they were just a load of rubbish . |
| 10 | There were just a handful of hear-hears when Mellor said his ‘ cheap and sordid ’ affair was not a resigning offence . |
| 11 | The dancing was to good old rock and roll music , and even those who were just a twinkle in their father 's eye in the 6Os joined in with the jiving fun . |
| 12 | The others were just a thing of the moment . |
| 13 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 14 | Two Man of the Match performances in the victories over Wales and England were just a foretaste of what followed . |
| 15 | Initially the reaction of many to Take That was that they were just a bunch of pretty boys with no talent . |
| 16 | Everyone thought that Zagrat were just a bunch of old beardies from the headster time . ’ |
| 17 | I remember myself , one time we had we had two grand fields and it were They were almost ripe when it came an awful time of rain , and they were just a sort of flattened . |
| 18 | While her parents , Ciesinski says , ‘ were just the kind of people who wanted their kids to do whatever we wanted ’ , she and her sister Katherine , who is twenty-one months older , both found themselves moving towards careers in opera . |
| 19 | ‘ I think my parents were just the sort of people who did not like staying in one place for very long . |
| 20 | They were just the sort of purchasers on whom peasants relied . |
| 21 | Well I started when my children were quite young , and taught them that er advertisements on television were just an invitation to be ripped off . |
| 22 | I tried to tell myself it was purely physical and you were just an object of desire , but I knew it was more than that . ’ |
| 23 | At first I assumed that Lexy 's flowers were just an aberration of your filing system . |
| 24 | You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of . |
| 25 | There was just no winning with this man . |
| 26 | And , do you know , before the war we could turn the cows out in the lane outside the farm before breakfast on summer mornings to graze the hedgerows because there was just no traffic at that time . |
| 27 | Randolph was just no use to the reindeer team as his white nose was n't any good . |
| 28 | There was just no meeting of minds on the weapons issue . |
| 29 | There was just no point in remaining on the premises when you knew you had to go , as Muldoon had said . |
| 30 | Her family were good , but a long way away and there was just no future at all . |