Example sentences of "[was/were] just [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Randolph was just no use to the reindeer team as his white nose was n't any good . |
| 4 | He did n't really mean it — it was just a ploy to be rid of Doreen . ’ |
| 5 | She was just a subject to be questioned . |
| 6 | She was still terribly young and anyway , I think I was just a boy to her … any boy … and she wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed . ’ |
| 7 | It was just a stick to him . ’ |
| 8 | A spokeswoman for the Guides Association said yesterday : ‘ She worked here for a short while and I suppose it was just a job to her . ’ |
| 9 | He comforted himself by assuming that she was just a mother-figure to the young man and there could n't possibly be any sex in it . |
| 10 | Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle . |
| 11 | Or perhaps the recent tremor was just a prelude to the really big one . |
| 12 | ’ It was just a game to them . |
| 13 | He was just the person to be drawn into psychical research , and also into work on the boundary of matter and energy , a frontier like that between body and mind . |
| 14 | It was just the opposite to before the 1979 Open . |
| 15 | They did n't know it — he was just the Kid to them — but he knew . |
| 16 | A few yards up the hill , on my left , was a turning which at first I thought was just the entrance to a field . |