Example sentences of "[noun] just [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke covered the microphone with his hand and leant towards her , his lips just brushing hers in the tenderest of kisses before he whispered softly , ‘ I love you , Fran . |
| 2 | The cichlids just seeing them as part of the overall decor would move them out of their way , often causing them to come apart making them useless . |
| 3 | One to the police , one to the ambulance , one to the fire brigade just saying we 're proposing to do them . |
| 4 | It was , it 's slow when you do n't have the computer just doing it on its own . |
| 5 | He was sleeping with one arm encircling his head , small podge of fingers just touching his cheek . |
| 6 | Several men turned to watch her progress with open admiration , and this was not surprising for she was very beautiful : tall , slim and graceful with dark , shining hair just touching her shoulders , a lovely skin and a soft , smiling mouth . |
| 7 | By 1960 , the American space programme had launched a number of ‘ Mercury ’ spacecraft , and the first of their manned spacecrafts was launched in the early part of 1961 , once again with the Russians just beating them to that objective . |
| 8 | A gunman just practising his aim . |
| 9 | Did you hear , that was Alan just making it |
| 10 | I have a quick phone call I think it was June or July just stating what they wanted to do and i in my opinion it was passed then and it is political . |
| 11 | Say if you 're , if you 're really busy at the bar just taking your gloves off and fucking putting them on . |
| 12 | ‘ All right , then , ’ said Dolly , ‘ let me tell you that if I 'ave to spend two more rotten days just kickin' me heels , I 'll smash the place up . ’ |
| 13 | She could spend a few days in Prague just enjoying herself , and … ’ |
| 14 | Er and then we 'd used to repeat right the way through the day , we had a bus say for sixteen hours and it erm repeated itself every hour and that was boring job just writing it down and repeating it . |
| 15 | Speed did a fine job just modelling his Asics sportswear , Kelly played great , Dorigo played really well . |
| 16 | With Vicki just having her birthday she 's got all she needs now is n't it ? |
| 17 | I spent the evening just holding her , ’ disclosed one bereaved owner . |
| 18 | the , Russ ' erm , done , well he 's already got a wall , just make it a bit bigger , an existing wall just taking it around the back so gon na do that in the summer I 'll erm , well in the spring , yeah gives er a bit , a bit of a practice |
| 19 | And the quantitative distinction which is well illustrated by this photograph , which is completely typical let me get the one , hang on right , this is a photograph of a hamster ovum with a hamster sperm just fertilizing it there and you can see that the hamster sperm is a lot smaller than the hamster ovum , and this is totally typical , it 's smaller by many orders of magnitude . |
| 20 | I have spent most of the day just finding my way here from the castle . ’ |
| 21 | I had expected you to spend your first week just finding your feet . ’ |
| 22 | second lazy shit no leave it on , the that 's what it 's for , for Christ sake , they 're giving you twenty five quid just telling what you saying , might be private , be happy there |
| 23 | He 's gone to bowl in the deep mid wicket position and Gooch just giving himself a few yards er mid-on . |
| 24 | Another thing , if you have a facility for a portable mini-ramp , for instance if you have a hall to put it in , then contact Davie or Jamie on 041 339 6523 because they have one placed in storage just doing nothing . |
| 25 | Can all those bracing ‘ think European ’ messages have fallen on completely stony ground , and were Lord Young , Alan Sugar and Sir John Harvey-Jones just wasting their breath and the tax-payers ' money ? |
| 26 | It seems to be one of the valves sticking in its guide and the piston just tapping it as it reaches the top of its stroke . |
| 27 | ‘ Good morning , sir , last man just collecting his weapon — ammunition and stores all loaded in the truck — ready to go in two minutes . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a very patriarchal family , ’ Zoë says , ‘ the family define itself as the men , with the women and children just surrounding them — so when one man gets himself another woman , it does n't change things . ’ |
| 29 | I 've had enough of men just thinking they can ride roughshod over … ’ |
| 30 | It 's the hottest mag around , it 'll give you a suntan just reading it — it 's a Sizzler , it 's ZZAP ! ! |