Example sentences of "he [be] just [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is just calling the office . |
| 2 | Criticised for looking miserable all the time , but others say his seriousness is a pretence and really he 's just taking the mickey out of himself . |
| 3 | Because surely he 's just enforcing the Minister 's policy . |
| 4 | If you ask me , he 's one of those chaps whose marriage was so close and idyllic that he 'll never get over his wife 's death : he 's just passing the time as usefully as he can . |
| 5 | He 's just inspecting the horse , ’ he added , glancing at Maggie with raised brows . |
| 6 | He 's just hiding the bat behind the pad . |
| 7 | I think he 's just portraying the situation as it was , kind of sparring of each other , playing games with each other , you know that kind of fits it does n't it ? |
| 8 | He 's just doing the day shift . |
| 9 | He 's there , still curled up and still secured by the tape , but he must have wriggled his way through to here while you were down in the cellar ; he 's knocked over a table with the phone on it and he 's just turning the phone the right way up as you enter the lounge and see him . |
| 10 | He was just inserting the roach when Fergus rolled over to him and held the shotgun out to him . |
| 11 | He was just drawing the screens apart to step inside , when the door opened . |
| 12 | He was just cursing the child lock which his sweating , trembling hands were unable to work when he noticed the girl jockey walking towards his car . |
| 13 | He was just telling the driver of the light engine that he would be away in a minute , when from Bradley Fold station box came the 4-5-5 signal ( train or vehicles running away on the right line ) . |
| 14 | In some games he was just called The Master . |
| 15 | ‘ It is disappointing because he was just getting the hang of Wimbledon and he would have won if he had n't taken the knock at the first bend , ’ said Williams . |
| 16 | He was just scooping the lard out of the trout mask when there came a violent knocking at the bedroom door . |
| 17 | The safe was open , and the two books were on father 's desk with the cardboard box , and he was just taking the lid off the box as I came in . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps he was just imagining the undercurrent of nostalgia , he told himself as he looked at Cora-Beth 's flushed , excited face . |
| 19 | He was just laying the cards down for another game , when he heard the door open behind him . |
| 20 | He was just completing the operation , relieved that no one had commented on his obvious injury , when Mary Ann said : |
| 21 | A Mr yesterday , he was just authorising the use of firearms and he said that was put into writing and we 've got that form but that only authorises the issue of firearms er the practicality , the authorising and the carrying out of the raid is n't covered by that document . |