Example sentences of "[was/were] just a [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 | We told them she was losing the baby , but they thought it was just a scam for her to get out of the cell . |
| 19 | In fact I cried when I got to the top , but I think that that was just a release of emotion . |
| 20 | It was just a sack of shit . |
| 21 | He knew they were watching him , but he ignored them ; he was just a worker on his way home . |
| 22 | That original production was just a compilation of fairly amateur footage , but now Havis has moved into the big league with broadcast TV-quality programmes featuring the pilot's-eye view of a number of interesting routes flown by different airlines worldwide . |
| 23 | Broad , Gower and Lamb fell in quick succession and then it was just a case of mopping up . |
| 24 | For most English people it was just a case of sighing with relief that it was all over . |
| 25 | Thereafter it was just a case of hard riding the thirty miles through green Lothian , by Hailes and Haddington and Musselburgh , for Edinburgh , which he reached before nightfall . |
| 26 | I knew she had to come to me each time , it was just a case of sticking it out . |
| 27 | The farmer and his neighbours were all friends so it was just a case of asking them to keep an eye on their moggies , and spying on a few of the plumper-looking ones — successful hunters , we assumed . |
| 28 | Eventually we all agreed we wanted this fierce bark that was both harsh and metallic , after which it was just a case of refining it down until we settled on the precise tone we ended up using . |
| 29 | tying them up but when they went out to the end of the estuary that was just a case of get there first to get the job ? |
| 30 | ‘ It was just a case of finding who they were . ’ |