Example sentences of "i [was/were] just [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I was just a film actor maybe I would have done because that 's where all the films get made . |
| 2 | I was just a kid looking for the ‘ juice ’ ’ . |
| 3 | I was just a kid . ’ |
| 4 | Then is sometimes claimed to be necessarily anaphoric in nature , and to have no gestural deictic usage , but rather complex usages show this is not so — consider , for example , the following said pointing at a 1962 model Chevrolet ( Nunberg , 1978 : 33 ) ) : ( 55 ) I was just a kid then As an initial step towards seeing how time deixis interacts with cultural measurements of time in an absolute or non-deictic way , consider words like today , tomorrow , yesterday . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | That is one heck of a seal launch ! ’ and Colin Lavelle 's ‘ No kidding lads , I was just a boy when I joined the queue for that stopper ! ’ |
| 7 | I was just a boy and it affected me deeply . |
| 8 | I just could n't get a word out then , I was just a quivering , stuttering heap , and I tried to say , ‘ I 've g-g-g-g-got a sp-sp-sp-speech impediment . ’ |
| 9 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 10 | I was just a doss . |
| 11 | To him I was just a child amusing herself . |
| 12 | I thought I was just a bit hyper , like everyone else . |
| 13 | ‘ I was just a bit taken aback , that 's all . |
| 14 | I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … . |
| 15 | I was just a bit jealous , I suppose . |
| 16 | So I was just a bit of sport . |
| 17 | I was just a bit too short of time on , on Friday to That 's about all I need . |
| 18 | Like , what if I opened the door , right , he did n't know I was coming home , he went , he looked at me and went , what are you doing here , I went , oh thanks Ryan , and he went , no , no I did n't mean it like that , I was just a bit surprised to see you like . |
| 19 | ‘ Off the field he was an established star and I was just a youngster . |
| 20 | I was just a squib and he was a six-former , very fine chap and took no notice of grubby little oicks . |
| 21 | I was just a girl who couldaint say Non ! |
| 22 | I was just a girl who couldaint say Non ! |
| 23 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 24 | He did n't mind about me : I was just a girl . ’ |
| 25 | I was just a girl , so my father was never really interested in me , and my mother — well , she loved my brother too … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was just a caretaker , until my successor could be trained , ’ he said more gently . |
| 27 | Thought I was just a wannabe nobody . ’ |
| 28 | Way back , when I was just a lad , it seems , programs for the PC were , almost without exception , single use . |
| 29 | That I was just a father , a husband — I 'd somehow ceased to exist as a person in my own right . ’ |
| 30 | I was just a novice and he was fairly frightening , not giving an inch until he had sounded you out . |