Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] were just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we were just now with the research then talk about questionnaires . |
| 2 | no , but the spiders , I remember that one that got , was on the daddy-longlegs and he was just sitting there and he would n't move and no one would walk down the stairs , so we were just giving it pouf pouf and all throwing things at him trying to get him to go . |
| 3 | The potential to encourage lifestyle changes that would make retailing more environmentally sustainable are more limited than they were just a decade ago . |
| 4 | Hanging back so they were just at the limit of vision , she followed them through the tunnels of the complex , occasionally passing other personnel or soldiers , who ignored her to concentrate on their search for the fugitive . |
| 5 | If I were just starting zandering from the beginning I would not even consider night fishing for them until I had got my act together in the daytime . |
| 6 | Emmie felt frightened as if she were just going to jump into deep water . |
| 7 | They occupy the time that seems vacant , as if you were just hanging around doing nothing — but where in reality the well is filling up , where you are gathering together the material that will make up your narrative ; rearranging it , transforming it . |
| 8 | They 'd arrest you if you gave a false name or something like that or if you were just a beggar . |
| 9 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 10 | Erm it does n't give you a headache it helps to maybe cure a headache , and it 's just nice smelling and I think if you were just to even with your partners or with friends even just massage somebody 's hands or massage somebody 's feet if you do n't make them scream while you 're doing it . |
| 11 | If you were just a lodger , coming and going in your own way , I 'd say it was none of my business . ’ |
| 12 | you know if you were just keeping your |
| 13 | right , now , if you had about twenty thousand pounds to spend on a car Dave , what would you buy ? , no seriously , I mean if you were just like , start , no , actually no that 's the wrong thing to say , what looks really smart ? |
| 14 | You 're gon na paint them exactly as you would if you were just doing it on paper alright ? |
| 15 | Cos you were just a few minutes later this morning . |
| 16 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 17 | We constantly come across situations where colleagues treat us as if we were just raising points of sexuality to be difficult , or as a piece of axe-grinding . |
| 18 | If we were just gon na bolt together the two unions then that may be able to be done in a couple of years or so , but if we 're trying to build something better , then we 're talking about a project that takes place over several years . |
| 19 | I mean I suppose if we were just going for the day it would be alright . |
| 20 | It looked like there were just fortunes being spent , which there were , but no-one could quite figure out where the money was coming from , or why this money was being spent in this way . |
| 21 | The variations are so wide that it would contravene both the principle of fair labelling ( see Chapter 3.3 ( 1 ) ) and the principle of maximum certainty ( see Chapter 3.3 ( i ) ) if there were just a single offence of non-fatal harm and a single offence of sexual assault : this would often leave little to be decided at the trial and would transfer the effective decision to the sentencing stage . |
| 22 | If there were just two , as in the face-to-face dialogue , then the ethical would preside as the injunction of responsibility for the other . |
| 23 | How about if there were just two of use and we had two lots of three ? |
| 24 | So which piece if there were just three of us , you and me and the dog |
| 25 | But it is equally harmful to swing to the opposite extreme : to claim that the enterprise of becoming literate is hard only because teachers make it so , and that children would succeed perfectly well if they were just provided with suitable books and left to themselves . |
| 26 | Outside people talk about prisoners missing physical sex and the need for conjugal visits as if they were just animals who needed relief from tension . |
| 27 | But er if they were just working for a single day , it was long day up till ten o'clock at night in a harvest you know . |
| 28 | I do n't have to go shopping but I was , I was sa knew though cos they were just like me at right age . |
| 29 | Cos they were just twenty one last year . |
| 30 | Looked like they were just going to have to get along with things the way they were until their time was up . |