Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] be just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 2 | The two girls were both on night duty and they waited in vain all night , hoping against hope that Steve and his crew had perhaps been forced down somewhere , but by the time dawn came up and there was still no news , they realised he was just another casualty . |
| 3 | But they insist they 're just normal . |
| 4 | I only appear on infrequent occasions , so why do n't they think I 'm just a family friend ? ’ |
| 5 | They say they 're just trying to stretch brighter pupils by letting them use facilities not available at most primary schools . |
| 6 | The other danger arose from Government departments squeezing a small bill into the Queen 's Speech : ‘ They say it is just two or three little clauses and … it immediately turns out that the process is not nearly as simple as was promised . |
| 7 | It 's what they say it 's just the whole business of looking at lectures for the British National Corpus . |
| 8 | They say it 's just a paper excersise which ignores the real problems in the mental health service . |
| 9 | They were kidding themselves if they believed they were just electing a bunch of councillors to run local services . |
| 10 | They were in their early thirties , so 1 did not feel too out of place from the point of view of age , and at first no one took any notice of me , as if they thought I was just another mature student . |
| 11 | We told them she was losing the baby , but they thought it was just a scam for her to get out of the cell . |
| 12 | And so they went to report to the , to the police but and th I mean they did n't believe them , they thought it was just like birds . |
| 13 | Well they said the witnesses said they thought it was just like an older brother a younger brother . |
| 14 | Our trusty shore controls informed us , somewhat naively in view of the fact that the black night outside was dotted with the myriad lights of fishing vessels , that they thought she was just passing the Manacles . |
| 15 | Maybe they thought she was just exploring the area within the walls . |
| 16 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |
| 17 | They 've brought you a farewell present but they think it 's just too big . |
| 18 | They think I am just a burden and they want grandchildren to look after them when they get old . |
| 19 | ‘ And they said they was just farmers , like us , ’ mused Jonadab , as they rode at a walk through the high arched entrance and into the stable-yard . |
| 20 | So we basically done to what that is although they said they were just gon na dri , drill a one point nine five |
| 21 | They said it was just a racing accident . |
| 22 | They said it was just a 15-minute nightmare . ’ |
| 23 | They thought it was broken , then they said it was just a bad sprain , but apparently they want to do another X-ray , so I simply do n't know what 's happening . |
| 24 | ‘ They said he was just what they were looking for , ’ Beverley said yesterday at home in Alwoodley , Leeds . |
| 25 | Yeah so I mean with , with younger people it 's , although th they 're still not , it 's still not going to be easy-easy er like with the older people , there 's still the , the disturbance element that in years to come they are not going to have this to fall back on because by the time that they retire it 's just not going to exist . |