Example sentences of "but [pron] was just " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was just cool . |
| 2 | ‘ I did write to them but I was just snubbed . ’ |
| 3 | But I was just lazing around on beaches . ’ |
| 4 | No but I was just sort of testing you out to see , you know , how you reacted . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , but I was just going to make some coffee , ’ said Ianthe . |
| 6 | But I was just saying , here let's have a little look at this as he pops it off now . |
| 7 | " I 'm afraid I 'm in something of a hurry but I was just passing and thought I would call in on the off-chance . |
| 8 | Once it was my turn to hit but I was just sitting on the ground and was thinking about something else . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah but I was just saying , when you think about it . |
| 10 | But I was just wondering where you was gon na put it . |
| 11 | Yeah but I was just got out of it , not very good at it . |
| 12 | But I was just gon na say , it 's understandable |
| 13 | distinction between attempting to respond on the basis of behaviour , or a response based on whether or not there 's a victim , can carry you a certain way , but I was just thinking of some of the discussions we 've had in college recently about the sort of behaviour with which we feel uncomfortable , and I have to say that sometimes it would be difficult to identify a given victim or , you know , a group of given victims . |
| 14 | But she was just as desperate , as grief-stricken as Jinny had imagined . |
| 15 | She might not have been as glamorous as the great vessels loaded with equally glamorous cargo , but she was just as important in her own way . |
| 16 | But she was just so bubbly and so vivacious , and she looked so young despite being well over eighteen , that there was something almost right for her in the part . |
| 17 | But she was just about to say something when her eyes moved and something touched the middle of his back . |
| 18 | ‘ But she was just my secretary , ’ Julius said with a frown . |
| 19 | But she was just being over-imaginative , she chided herself . |
| 20 | ‘ But she was just a gorgeous bitch , ’ Fen continued . |
| 21 | But there was just enough from John Major this week to suggest that it is n't a fantasy either . |
| 22 | He knew he was clever but there was just a slim chance Mr Crangle had found a way to get him , and he did n't want him caught , not for anything in the world . |
| 23 | But there was just one last scene for Burton to complete before he could be hospitalized : his death scene . |
| 24 | She could have called his bluff and told him to drop dead , but there was just a chance he might ditch her : and then all that spade work would be for nothing . |
| 25 | But there was just very little erm convenience and accommodation . |
| 26 | Er clean , er th they were nearly always clean but there was just not er the things there to use . |
| 27 | If it had been later in the season , and the roses in full bloom , he might have missed the portal altogether , but there was just the one unopened bud on the bare branches , of a delicate peach shade with hints of rose which made him think of a girl 's skin . |
| 28 | She was usually so confident when dealing with even the most difficult of guests on the Day-to-Day programme , but there was just something about Luke Calder that seemed to throw her off balance . |
| 29 | Mr Skinner was weird , unpredictably dangerous , even , but he was just … |
| 30 | I was swotty but he was just a brain . |