Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [am/are] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But perhaps I 'm just dreaming . |
| 3 | You talk tough but inside you 're just like all the rest of us . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But like they 're just doing a survey |
| 6 | ‘ But really we 're just happy that he 's still alive . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Zagrat were the most popular band of the headster time , but now they 're just embarrassing . ’ |
| 9 | White friends that I 've got , their mums argued at first , but now they 're just bringing the baby up as their own . |
| 10 | ‘ But now we 're just trying to forget that part of our life I know that sounds awful but we 've just had to rebuild our lives again . ’ |
| 11 | But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit . |
| 12 | I reckon she 's overly keen on coke and spends too much time in clubs , but maybe I 'm just jealous ; my cub-reporter status on the Caley and the triumph-of-miniaturisation salary that goes with it make habits that expensive out of the question . |
| 13 | But maybe I 'm just a perfectionist , I do n't know . |
| 14 | I took you for a bit of a rogue , but maybe you 're just a fool . |
| 15 | You could write on it any time but then you 're just sitting in all day . |
| 16 | But amazingly we are just as careless when it comes to bank notes . |