Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [was/were] 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 | I think we did speak about that , the offie but mostly it was just the little house , outside Mhm . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But perhaps she was just short of sleep : there were other ways of looking at it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But like he was just sat there ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My gorgeous glossy dark locks used to be Mummy 's Delight when I was little , but now it was just wavy like the sea at Brighton and I wore it long with a flyaway fringe — well , it was flyaway if I could stick it solidly enough with gel or spray . |
| 11 | But then they were just two little boys . |
| 12 | We thought that there would be something in it , but instead there were just bland generalities . |