Example sentences of "[was/were] just [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made my way through all the guard checkpoints and got to the Hotel Intourist in the middle of town at about 11 o'clock when David and Geoffrey were just siting down to lunch . |
| 2 | ‘ But we were just working up to the knees and you 've still got $ 85,750 left on the meter . ’ |
| 3 | We were just sitting down to our dinner when the chief Druid came in sight with his begging bowl and Tony got under the bed . |
| 4 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 5 | However , when we decided this morning to change the whole way of presentation , yeah , I was just getting along to that . |
| 6 | I was just building up to it cos it 's |
| 7 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 8 | I gave Fenella a handful of loose change for cups of tea and told her I was just popping out to ‘ see to Armstrong ’ and I 'd be back in an hour . |
| 9 | The door which had opened hastily to let him through was just swinging heavily to when Harry roused himself out of his daze of doubt and consternation , and flung himself after in a burst of despairing rage . |
| 10 | having your normal period was n't ever mentioned , I was just sent along to the lav , my sister came with me , she said ‘ you wear this ’ , and that was that — My mother never even mentioned it … you got married and you had children , I did n't know there was such a thing that you could not have them and it just went on and on . |
| 11 | I 'd hired a team of private investigators to keep an eye on you after your house was ransacked , and I was just ringing through to them to let them know where you were . ’ |
| 12 | For another two and a half years I survived the mosquitoes and grew to love the people and was just looking forward to my first home leave when a letter from the Superior General appointed me to Vocations Director in the South of England ! |
| 13 | Either an eminent barrister , Matthew decided , about to buy his wife — not his mistress , not with that hair — some expensive bauble , or else he worked in Fortnum 's , down in Piccadilly , where all the salesmen dressed like that , and was just showing off to his mother . |
| 14 | He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall . |
| 15 | I was just coming up to Scotland for a holiday . |
| 16 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , ’ Angela apologised to Jessica , who was just hurrying off to her Patrol meeting . |
| 18 | A large black car was just driving up to the airport building . |