Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] just [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment had then just begun its big rise but there were still jobs going — I was just being silly about which ones to apply for . |
| 2 | ‘ I knew I was just being snooty , ’ says his mother in some embarrassment , ‘ but I wondered why Jonathan was attracted to the child with the most disadvantaged background . |
| 3 | Perhaps I was just being a ridiculous prig , behaving quite differently from anyone else who had ever been taken prisoner . |
| 4 | She 'd have thought I was just being snotty . |
| 5 | I thought maybe I was just being selfish , it 's so difficult to analyse your emotions . |
| 6 | I was just being careful . |
| 7 | She thought I was just being silly as she does n't believe the rumours . |
| 8 | I was , I was just being foolish in , in picking up er one of the children and my back went . |
| 9 | I do n't drink coffee , I was just being polite . |
| 10 | Well no that just might have been Rachael you were just been talking to . |
| 11 | You were just being humane towards a wild animal . |
| 12 | do n't be silly did n't really leave you you were just being stubborn were n't you ? , still are . |
| 13 | I thought she was just being awkward until she slowly went downhill and became incontinent . |
| 14 | Either Mrs Hnatiuk really did not know much about Hank or she was just being perverse . |
| 15 | She was just being neurotic . |
| 16 | In court she said she was just being sarcastic . |
| 17 | I mean , I expect she knew how you felt about the only things worth having being the things you 'd worked hard for and earned for yourself , so you would n't want her to leave you the house ] But she did n't want you to think she 'd forgotten you , or that she was just being spiteful , or something … ’ |
| 18 | But she was just being over-imaginative , she chided herself . |
| 19 | I nearly got it but she said she knew she was just being awkward ! |
| 20 | We thought we were just being cute last week when we hung the tag MABI on Apple 's multi-platform Cat in the Hat Macintosh Application Services ( MAS ) strategy ( UX No 435 ) . |
| 21 | There can not have been any English fans who had expected their team to win the series , but the manner in which they were just being steam-rollered seemly scarcely credible . |
| 22 | They were n't doing anything — they were just being polite — but Nigel was slightly afraid that the artist was trying to get off with Eleanor . |
| 23 | Well , no , I 'm just thinking you could have it sent , but I mean it was just be on that one now would n't it ? |
| 24 | ‘ It was quite clear at the time that it was just being borrowed . |
| 25 | It was just being with mates really . |
| 26 | And you know I went into that film it was just being launched in America , and there was a sort of prologue to the film and er I did n't know whether to , to become terribly angry or , or just about cry because the prologue was as if Britain was a sinking ship you know , this was the last we would see of this great thing and they made the most of it you know , like er i the g the film was the old private schools you know the old w well the public schools in England . |
| 27 | but that did n't happen very often to us because it was just being introduced |
| 28 | and it was just being polished by hand , you know , christ . |
| 29 | I went over to him wondering if something was wrong or if he was just being lazy . |
| 30 | He proceeded to play it five times at the next night 's party ( ‘ We thought he was just being nice but he said it was great ! ’ ) . |