Example sentences of "be [v-ing] just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're seeing just a few cases and I do n't deny the fact that occasionally there are bullies in the Army . |
| 2 | But I think you 're over-reacting just a little . |
| 3 | Around this lily-covered pond are growing just a few of the 3,000 members of the Araceae family . |
| 4 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 5 | We also feel it 's important that we should be doing just a bit more than just having exchanges , that there is a whole process of that needs to go on . |
| 6 | You can avoid accidents in and around you home be taking just a little time to check up on your surroundings . |
| 7 | He must be feeling just a bit silly at the moment after showing his lack of faith in me yesterday with his home remedies and his general attitude . |
| 8 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 9 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 10 | Perhaps if they had he would have been trying just a little harder and not preparing himself , as he was , for a long night of fornication . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's becoming just a fashion statement . |
| 12 | IF Baroness Thatcher is feeling just a teensy weensy bit smug at the news that the Tories are in such a mess that a high proportion of them want her back as leader , well who can blame her ? |
| 13 | He was using just a small group — a sax player , a keyboard player , bass and drums , as I recall — and he was really wailing . |
| 14 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 15 | Already Northern Ireland was becoming just a pretty landscape , a backdrop to the pain behind her eyes . |
| 16 | The very notion , now that she was sitting just a matter of inches away from him , was ludicrous . |
| 17 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 18 | But she could n't think straight while Julius was standing just a couple of feet away ! |
| 19 | She jumped violently , swinging round , glad of the darkness that hid the shock in her eyes when she saw that Terry Lewis had followed her and was standing just a few feet away . |
| 20 | Such a crisis happened in the stormy weather of a particularly difficult week in February , when everyone was feeling just a little touchy . |