Example sentences of "know [pron] [was/were] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did know I was just so angry to begin with that it just , they 're , they 're so |
| 2 | I do n't know it was just a thought . |
| 3 | So I I think it started on an informal basis , you know everyone was just a little bit fed up with the way they 're being treated and the way you know been told how much we could earn , how we could earn it , when when we could earn it and all this sort of palaver . |
| 4 | I know I was just gon na quickly do this and I 'll come and help with your dinner . |
| 5 | You know I was just thinking |
| 6 | No , I know I was just thinking if I could ring him up now . |
| 7 | Yeah I know I was just er |
| 8 | You know everything was just the same as it is here . |
| 9 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 10 | I remember when I married him but I do n't remember when I met him , although I know it was just ten days between the two occasions . |
| 11 | Erm , she started really by , well th well there is two of them involved at the time , but they started by reading a book on the subject and really just talking to me about it certainly , because I mean they really did n't understand , you know because food to them is just food , you know it was just some meal they had to eat because they were hungry and they could n't understand why I had got this whole thing completely distorted . |
| 12 | But before that it was best , you know it was just all farm land , it was brilliant you know . |
| 13 | You know it was just chance you had a baby like this , but you ca n't help congratulating yourself on your wonderful mothering , too ! |
| 14 | Th you know it was just the sort of it , it all changed after the First World War and completely changed after the Second World War . |
| 15 | And it came home to me that you know we all had to come to terms in some way with erm with what it was all about and the kids and you know and it became something of a I mean i it was the experience that we went through you know it was i it was you know something that we 'll always remember I think because it 'll always make Christmas different I think for us in a way you know but it And when they came up from South Wales with car loads and van loads and I mean we all just sobbed you know I mean there was nothing to do really you know it was just and I think anyway that was Christmas , but I mean er . |
| 16 | so you know it was just flowing along smoothly , you could n't see that there was a wi er weir there |
| 17 | ‘ I knew I was just being snooty , ’ says his mother in some embarrassment , ‘ but I wondered why Jonathan was attracted to the child with the most disadvantaged background . |
| 18 | I knew she was just as scared as I was when we heard the cat on the stairs . |
| 19 | It was Aunt Tossie , leaning over her , picking up the plate and fork and then shovelling the spinach into her own mouth , aborting the sacrifice Nicandra knew she was just about to make . |
| 20 | That look of sympathy deepened in his eyes , as if he knew she was just casting around desperately to try and outrun the turmoil of her own feelings . |
| 21 | I nearly got it but she said she knew she was just being awkward ! |
| 22 | ‘ You knew there were just two envelopes in there ? ’ she continued . |
| 23 | She daydreamed sometimes about finding a little flat but knew they were just that — daydreams … |
| 24 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
| 25 | There were many other primitives to come but by the time they arrived I knew it was just an attempt to revive attention . |
| 26 | I knew it was just idle threats , but a lot would n't have — they 'd have been distraught . |
| 27 | I knew it was just a matter of getting the knack ! ’ |
| 28 | Mala blinked , and grew paler , but quickly assured him that as far as she knew it was just a coincidence . |
| 29 | He tried to harden his heart in advance , but knew it was just a front . |
| 30 | By the time he climbed stiffly out of bed he knew it was just past noon and had the events of Rotherhithe roughed out in his mind like a draft report . |