Examples of 'had been just' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been just"

The phrase 'had been just' generally implies that something had recently occurred or happened in the past. It suggests that a certain event or situation had taken place only a short time ago or immediately preceding a specific point in time

How to use "had been just" in a sentence

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had been just
If things had been just a little bit different.
Exited the bathroom as if it had been just yesterday.
It had been just one month to your marriage.
I wish it would had been just a month.
It had been just a trade school before that.
In my mind there had been just you.
It had been just them for so long.
It was our lives that had been just torn to pieces.
They had been just a bit rude to some costumers.
Up until then it had been just war.
If she had been just a little less selfish.
I would have told you straightaway if it had been just about us.
As if living had been just a long dream.
The plans had been fruitless and the dreams had been just dreams.
And if he had been just the least bit sane.

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It seemed that all her loves had been just orgies.
It had been just another erotic dream.
I wish the chefs had been just as exciting.
It had been just one night to him.
It would have been better if it had been just the two of you.
She had been just as active as in the past.
For many of the previous centuries it had been just a village.
Our stay had been just right.
All I am saying is ifthe cause had been just.
If only she had been just a little more careful.
Production was only about a fourth of what it had been just two years earlier.
He had been just before he retired.
We were no longer the children we had been just a few short years before.
It had been just after the last lesson that it happened.
For six years it had been just the two of them.
He had been just about to claim his thirty sous and go.
He was embarrassed that he had been just spraying it all over creation.
It had been just a week since we had met each other.
Now it would appear that we had been just considering ourselves.
There had been just too many upheavals in her life.
Might have turned out if history had been just a little different.
That had been just my mouth.
Life was much more simple when he had been just a thief.
If it had been just one man.
Wayward soul and made me feel like they had been just waiting for me to.
If it had been just one of them.
It was clear to him that for them it had been just another bein hazemanim.
If it had been just the drinking.
The lady found out that she had been just a church member.
If it had been just the two of us.
When that past tragedy hit her hometown she had been just a high school student.
This day had been just a tad more than stressful.
Previously, the population had been just estimated.
Her mom had been just as happy to see her go away.
I think she thought that if I had been just one of those girls.

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Examples of using Just
You guys just get out of here
Just like that one over there
He could not have just jumped through it
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