Example sentences of "was just a [det] " in BNC.
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1 | A flurry of pleasure as my favourite , stacked nuts , came to the rescue and then the sling was just a few feet away . |
2 | It was just a few at first , but after a while it got more and more till it 's quite crowded now . |
3 | The first time he had driven the van to Stowbridge he had smashed its top to pieces against the arch of the bridge , not realising it was just a few inches too high to go under . |
4 | It was just a few days after eight children from the W family from South Ronaldsay had been taken into care . |
5 | Sharpe was just a few paces from his enemy . |
6 | The bairn started bringing his milk back up all the time when he was just a few days old . |
7 | It was just a few scratches . |
8 | When he was just a few weeks old , he was stolen from his mother and carried through the bush to the side of a main road . |
9 | And sometimes if there was just a few of the men maybe two men in the camp , they would come and help with even fencing or or erm build up a dyke or something like that Even drain they would stay for days if they wanted draining the fields , mm it was that . |
10 | There was just a few yards walk to the main road , a careful look around , then across it , instinctively choosing the potential cover of a derelict warehouse on that side rather than the dockyard fence on this . |
11 | ‘ And it was just a few meals … ? ’ |
12 | Only too aware that her bed was just a few feet away , she gazed up at him , her eyes showing her confusion . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Er right , now there was just a few things that er I 've got to ask . |
15 | It was just a few inches below the surface . |
16 | But there 's still the need to first get rid of the modern slums which replaced the Victorian slums standing when the tower block was just a few lines on an architect 's sketch board . |
17 | FREEDOM was just a few short steps away , but the walk would change Tamas 's life for ever . |
18 | But er I mean it always er gained there was just a few working with it and they saw the improvement it was making and then everybody for the wild white clover . |
19 | When the Lockington railway disaster happened that was just a few miles from here . |