Example sentences of "be just [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smugglers , escaped convicts , drenched fishermen , or they might have been just watching the storm , voyeuristically curious to see a boat break up in choppy water . |
| 2 | I do n't really believe it will ever be made ; I am just providing the raw material which Letterman and some highly paid specialist screenwriter are going to work up into a proper script . |
| 3 | I am not drawing comparisons here , I am just making the point that 500-plus were lost in the Battle of Britain and nearly 700 were lost at Nuremburg on one raid . |
| 4 | They ( the skinheads ) are just wearing the flag because they 're patriotic . |
| 5 | The first rays of the sun are just touching the summit of the Mountain of God . |
| 6 | They could , in fact , be located offshore in shallow water , and lying on the beach watching these large structures with their whirling blades in the murky or hazy distance might be quite satisfying thought that without doing anything they are just providing the nation 's energy , or some of it . |
| 7 | This book is geared more to those parents who take a major part of the responsibility for the games and are just using the entertainer to bring an additional dimension to the party . |
| 8 | How sort of , seven out of ten of the shops for clothes are just selling the saris |
| 9 | I know women are involved in the business , but they are just toeing the line , repeating the same old images , playing the men 's game . |
| 10 | ‘ We Majorcans are just starting the night . ’ |
| 11 | But our department has n't changed , the women are just doing the same job as they did sixty |
| 12 | And , if you 're just deleting the one cell , it 's just the two keys . |
| 13 | So we 're just rearranging the first expression , okay , and getting this one right so now we 've got er a decision rule to obtain a , farmers will form their expectation of prices say next year , in T right , on the basis of last year 's price , last year 's actual price and last year 's , the expectation of last year 's actual price okay . |
| 14 | He says you could argue we 're just transferring the pollution from the streets to the power station . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're just hoping the dead man does n't ask for his tendon back , ’ added the manager . |
| 16 | They 're just mastering the basic skills of walking and talking , which open up a whole new world for them . |
| 17 | At a rally addressed by Labour 's Dennis Healey , they spent most of the time trying to avoid one of their school dinner ladies , who was forever shouting to the platform : ‘ You 're just feathering the beds for the Tories . ’ |
| 18 | White friends that I 've got , their mums argued at first , but now they 're just bringing the baby up as their own . |
| 19 | you 're just re-distributing the rubbish . ’ |
| 20 | Basically they 're just telling the Party to consider the demands of the peasants and do what the peasants want but then er then in the first paragraph they say that you ought to erm they ought to support the masses in their erm implementation of agrarian reform , you have to give them planned guidance so it 's almost that how they 're telling the cadres to go out there and almost manipulate the peasants demands into more of a communist one . |
| 21 | And what I 'm saying is we 're just reversing the we 're going to do the attendance report , financial report and then the chief executive 's report because there are a number of issues which I 'd like to raise within that . |
| 22 | that 's , that 's a new one but we 're just using the old one |
| 23 | This is this is further and better particulars we 're just finding the document in the bundle . |
| 24 | You 're just pouring the water off |
| 25 | So we 're just adding the conductances again , and if we did it with three of , we had sort of three pipes |
| 26 | Sh I mean to , to my mind , should n't the land ownership possibly one of the key issues cos that is if you have land ownership and then you 're just paving the way for the new capitalist society and to , you know , according to Marxist theory which I think is a pretty dodgy one , they have to go from capitalism to achieve socialism |
| 27 | and now the er , they 're not paying back , and the houses have come down and so what people are doing , or some people that have bought these houses , they 're just giving the keys back and repossessing the house |
| 28 | It could be that they 're just classing the dog as a member of the family , so they do really . |
| 29 | We look at our team , it does n't matter if you are section head or not section head or whatever you 're just working the team , you have responsibility for training . |
| 30 | They 're just protecting the public |