Example sentences of "was just [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In English I was I was just listening to music . |
| 2 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 3 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 4 | Window firm director Norman Waller , 34 , was just going to bed when he saw youths damaging a Vauxhall Cavalier belong to neighbour Bob Fay , Newcastle Crown Court was told . |
| 5 | I was just going to bed , he said . |
| 6 | I was just going to bingo . |
| 7 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 8 | Oh is that I was just talking to man . |
| 9 | Well I was just talking to Jean about that today , I mean I we 've got ta keep on doing it but , I think that |
| 10 | This is the great hall which is which is although it looks finished is actually by no means finished , I was just explaining to Mike we still need a go there , we still need a table there , we need all the windows to be done and we need three thousand pounds for that window . |
| 11 | ‘ I was just explaining to Michael here about your notes , ’ Simmons interjected , to her relief . |
| 12 | afford , ca n't afford at the minute , I was just saying to dad Bri 's gon na get us some shopping on his cheque book , I tell you , did I tell you about his embarrassing moment ? |
| 13 | and I was just saying to Yvonne er I 'm rapidly running out of my physio allowance , you know , because of the amount that |
| 14 | ‘ I was just saying to Sally , why do n't you come out with us on Saturday ? ’ |
| 15 | I was just saying to Simon remember when I did , I did this , before these came out I did the Fab Four Rock and Roll Beatles |
| 16 | Oh well , that sounds like everybody else , cos I was just saying to Ann that Ian and erm Martin they 've had high temperatures and |
| 17 | ‘ I was just saying to Miss Fergusson how very beautiful it is . ’ |
| 18 | I was just saying to Malcolm how surprised I 'd been to see so many your men at Doreen 's funeral , but I shut up when the police arrived . |
| 19 | At the time , Lineker was just coming to terms with the fact that his baby son , George , was battling against leukaemia . |