Example sentences of "just [v-ing] to be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a cool half million pounds in the kitty just waiting to be snapped up … a NEW 50,000 Generation Name Game , the latest thing in family fun … the chance to scoop a fortune on Vernons Pools and , of course , diamonds , diamonds , diamonds . |
| 2 | My thoughts were already perfectly organised , just waiting to be put down on paper . ’ |
| 3 | I think they 're just going to be planted there . |
| 4 | The conditions for the crossing were not much worse than for the criminals who were just beginning to be shipped across from England in the 1670s , and the death rates were not much higher . |
| 5 | Although the gross changes in the brain that accompany and probably cause it can be studied after the death of the patient , the details of the disease process are just beginning to be worked out in animals by studying the microscopic structure of the brain regions that are principally involved together with their biochemistry and their neurotransmitters . |