Example sentences of "was [adv] just a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed incredible that it was only just a week since she 'd arrived , Luce thought . |
| 2 | There were pictures in one of Gloria 's magazines of the decorated carriage Pulled by plumed horses that Her Majesty had travelled in before she became Her Majesty the Queen , when she was still just a Lady , on her way to be married . |
| 3 | So it was still just a shilling , shilling pocket money ? |
| 4 | Then Mr Sayers died prematurely when John was only about fifteen , so he was still just a boy when he had to become a man overnight , so to speak , and try and take on the running of this large and rather complicated farm . |
| 5 | Of course , he was probably just a smoothie , so suave and slick that he could keep about three million women on the line at once . |
| 6 | During my annual medical check-up in 1987 , Dr Dingle discovered a blood irregularity , but as I was fighting fit he said it was probably just a virus and I was to forget about it during my impending holiday and to see him on my return for a second blood test . |
| 7 | It was really just a way for the Countess to show off her wealth . |
| 8 | The move was really just a change for change 's sake — I was simply bored to tears by it all . |
| 9 | Like the cab , it was really just a space where the human drivers fitted into the machinery . |
| 10 | There was some clothing on the body but it was really just a skeleton , the hip bones were sticking out . |
| 11 | I went along with this , I even called him a wild buffalo of the American prairie ; but perhaps he was really just a parrot . |
| 12 | The once modern coaling plant was now just a mass of huge broken lumps of concrete . |
| 13 | They were in what had been a walled garden and was now just a mass of rubble . |
| 14 | The shift to fully fledged autonomization and Eigengesetzlichkeit ( self-legislation ) , the move to full disappearance of the referent , à la Mondrian or Pollock , was now just a step away . |
| 15 | It was now just a matter of persuading the public that their operation would be as safe as could possibly be devised . |
| 16 | The proposal to transfer Chinon , Loudun and Mirebeau to a mere child was surely just a trick giving Henry II an excuse to keep these three important castles in his own hands for many years to come . |
| 17 | ‘ Or was that just a ploy to … ? ’ |