Example sentences of "he [was/were] just [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now embarked on a new recording contract for Capitol , and proved wrong all the critics who 'd said he was just emulating Crosby when he developed his own new determined style which culminated in 1955 with his album Songs For Swinging Lovers , one of the first best-selling LPs . |
| 2 | But he had inherited his father 's ability , and he was just getting things straight again when he was badly hit by a prolonged series of dock strikes that tied up his ships and prevented them from earning anything . |
| 3 | Maybe he was just playing cowboys . ’ |
| 4 | Somehow he always managed to play off one creditor against another , claiming he was just awaiting payment for some big deal or other that was in the pipeline . |
| 5 | He knew that he was just awaiting Stok 's signal . |
| 6 | He was just saying goodbye to them as she drew up . |
| 7 | He was just covering earth over something he had buried . |
| 8 | He was just hurting people for his own amusement . |
| 9 | ‘ He was just making conversation . ’ |
| 10 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |