Example sentences of "i was just [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just trying work out when Robert left school and whether he would be the first lot , but he wo n't be . |
| 2 | There was never any budget and so I was just using stuff that I 'd already recorded here and there — hence the roughness of it . |
| 3 | I was just making conversation , ’ she answered with dignity ; and he tried to look chastened . |
| 4 | ROS : I was just making conversation . |
| 5 | I was just making supper when that stupid eunuch came along making a great commotion . ’ |
| 6 | I was just playing bass in my bedroom before I joined The Lost Pandas , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Erm it 's also the case that , particularly when abuse is of this sort of y'know like I was just describing y'know stroking , caressing , all that kind of things um it a lot of erm in some cases very confused feelings on the part of the people who 've been abused . |
| 8 | I was just killing time . |
| 9 | And I was reading , I was n't even doing anything , I was just sitting reading and the teacher walked in and I did n't hear him . |
| 10 | Um and erm I was just wondering y'know kind of erm often when I write questionnaires I like to go for a sort of more kind of rather less declarative statements . |
| 11 | ‘ Aw , I was just having fun , ’ said the dog . |
| 12 | And t' other week I were up there and I I was just asking woman just as a matter of interest love , I said , how much . |