Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [be] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Very hard ; I was worried about a hairline fracture , but luckily it was just a bad lump . |
| 2 | They might be surfers looking for surf , or spectators looking for surfers , but mostly they are just wave-watchers , bearing witness to the shifting moods of the ocean , timing the pulse of the patient . |
| 3 | And when it is hot , it is very hot ; but mostly it is just wet . |
| 4 | I think we did speak about that , the offie but mostly it was just the little house , outside Mhm . |
| 5 | That lead singer can be quite funny , but mostly he 's just like a maddie . |
| 6 | But , as Ivar Oxaal has pointed out , a full reading of ‘ The Black Jacobins ’ reveals quite clearly that ‘ this was not James 's thesis ’ but rather it was just one half of that writer 's theory as to the causes of abolition in the British colonies ’ . |
| 7 | Some people say there is more sniffing in the summer , but perhaps it 's just more obvious in the long summer evenings . |
| 8 | But perhaps it 's just as well . ’ |
| 9 | We 're sorry that his Mum , what 's her name ? , died , and that his Dad did n't come along with his new stepmother , but perhaps it 's just as well . |
| 10 | But perhaps it was just as well that she had this shock , for in her relief at finding the injury comparatively slight , she forbore to say very much about the unexpected guest . |
| 11 | But perhaps it was just as well , and at least the physical toll the climb was taking had , temporarily at least , driven other sensations from her body . |
| 12 | But perhaps I 'm just dreaming . |
| 13 | But perhaps she was just short of sleep : there were other ways of looking at it . |
| 14 | You talk tough but inside you 're just like all the rest of us . |
| 15 | The excitement rises with the plane but soon it is just another flight . |
| 16 | But anyway we 're just picking one particular example here and we 've got a T. And it 's a very small er example of a pattern . |
| 17 | When I saw that I wanted to be him , or one of them , or both of them , but anyway I was just so happy to watch them together . |
| 18 | I dare say their dabblings in a wide pool of indie noise styles would gel more effectively on record , but tonight it 's just directionless and dull . |
| 19 | But like they 're just doing a survey |
| 20 | But like he was just sat there ! |
| 21 | I 've he , I 've heard that one before , but like it 's just like this one in n it ? |
| 22 | ‘ But really we 're just happy that he 's still alive . |
| 23 | But erm it just er hopefully because yeah but really they 're just trying to investigate to make sure that we did n't act fraudulently in any way . |
| 24 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 25 | But really it 's just like |
| 26 | erm Oh definitely yes , I mean when we 're trying to play passes over the top of their defence and they 're getting cut or they 're going straight through to the goalkeeper , it 's very frustrating for us , but really it 's just a case of plugging away and trying to get things to come right . |
| 27 | But really it is just a reductio ad absurdum of the mental sentence view . |
| 28 | There are honest discounts to be had but often it 's just hype , designed to create sales euphoria . ’ |
| 29 | Assertions can be signalled by writing " I would suggest " , or " I would argue " , but often it is just assumed that whatever you say is your suggestion or argument . |
| 30 | Zagrat were the most popular band of the headster time , but now they 're just embarrassing . ’ |