Example sentences of "there was just [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There was just no way I could get you to talk to me . |
2 | There was just no way . |
3 | They had never been this alone and this close together , and there was just no way not to be intensely aware of him . |
4 | There was just no way she could let that pass unanswered . |
5 | There was just no winning with this man . |
6 | There was just no meeting of minds on the weapons issue . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | There was just no point in remaining on the premises when you knew you had to go , as Muldoon had said . |
9 | Her family were good , but a long way away and there was just no future at all . |
10 | ‘ They served all their time and then there was just no future for them . |
11 | But then streets disappeared altogether and there was just a mass of houses running into one another with the occasional alleyway between them . |
12 | There was just a crack . ’ |
13 | There was n't many men there was just a company come up and test bored in the hill . |
14 | There was just a kind of suspicious boredom . |
15 | Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick . |
16 | You see the idea , was if you had lights in your house and there was just a kink , or chink , they used to call them in those days , they could be spotted from the air , so th You either had wooden shutters at your window , or blackout curtaining . |
17 | Now there was just a lake . |
18 | There was just a chance , anyway , that she might stop it before it crashed against the arch . |
19 | She could have called his bluff and told him to drop dead , but there was just a chance he might ditch her : and then all that spade work would be for nothing . |
20 | If everything tumbled into place there was just a chance that they could be on the same ferry as the Renault , at 1330 hours the next day . |
21 | And , quite apart from demonstrating maturity by dismissing the incident and behaving normally , if she could manage to be polite to this man there was just a chance she might discover some clues to his plans for her family 's business . |
22 | He arrived at the bridge , walked over it then back again , he looked over the parapet at the shining metals , the line curved away round a curve ; he looked around , everything was quiet , the moon had come out and there was just a touch of frost in the air . |
23 | There was just a touch of sarcasm in her voice , which cut like a razor , and she knew she 'd drawn blood when he stared coldly back at her , the smile fading from his face . |
24 | And afterwards there was just a feeling of let-down , of wanting him to hold her and kiss her and pet her like a little girl . |
25 | While ELT publishing was still in its youth — in the days when both toes and fingers were needed to count the number of UK ELT publishers — one might have been forgiven for believing there was just a trace of the treasure hunt in its approach to the stern commercial discipline of market development . |
26 | And I said we just come out of the drive went across the road and there was just a bus behind us and erm I said the car almost came to a halt . |
27 | In Jean et Blonde , the hero 's beloved , although English , is described in terms of perfection , and the fact that ‘ There was just a suspicion in her speech/ That she had not been born at Pontoise ’ is a very minor and venial offence against courloisie . |
28 | Felipe came in just behind her and Maggie spun round while there was just a moment of privacy . |
29 | There was just a risk , however minimal , that the Iranian Embassy had people watching at the main passenger termini . |
30 | ‘ Franzia , ’ he said , and there was just a hint of Scottish burr . |