Example sentences of "but [pron] [was/were] just " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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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 | Oh yes I appreciate but I were just wondering what branches they were in , you 've explained that , that . |
| 15 | You could see city below and you could hear anything big , but you were just far enough away to be able to sleep safely . |
| 16 | But she was just as desperate , as grief-stricken as Jinny had imagined . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But she was just about to say something when her eyes moved and something touched the middle of his back . |
| 20 | ‘ But she was just my secretary , ’ Julius said with a frown . |
| 21 | But she was just being over-imaginative , she chided herself . |
| 22 | ‘ But she was just a gorgeous bitch , ’ Fen continued . |
| 23 | There were ‘ friends ’ , with a small ‘ f ’ , people , like me , whose company was interesting and pleasant but who were just casual acquaintances . |
| 24 | People later thought that she was my manager , but we were just good friends . |
| 25 | We got our first publishing contract through that , but we were just signing as songwriters and we made the odd grotesque , poppy single ! |
| 26 | ‘ No time to say really — but we were just about off , and I was holding the books for Dad when he said , ‘ I 'd best get those papers for old Holroyd . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But we were just working up to the knees and you 've still got $ 85,750 left on the meter . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I said I 'd try , but we were just far too busy . |
| 29 | but we were just down there |
| 30 | But there was just enough from John Major this week to suggest that it is n't a fantasy either . |