Example sentences of "but [adv] it was 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 | 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 . |