Example sentences of "[was/were] just [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was barefoot and cold ; all I had on were my underpants and my dressing gown which , by this time , was just ripped to shreds . |
| 32 | In the nineteen sixties an awful lot of er of stuff went , er or was just allowed to er to get into bad repair , and of course er B R were n't terribly interested so they just abandoned it . |
| 33 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |
| 34 | He found at the edge of his consciousness the wish that he was just going to his own flat to crash out rather than back to share Catherine 's warm bed . |
| 35 | There was just going to be one big thud when I hit the deck and then all would be over — my arm would stop hurting and no more 109s could make dirty passes at me behind my back . |
| 36 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | I was just going to sa , er ask the question if it 's not more celebrated by expatriate Scots ? |
| 39 | I was just going to , when a guard caught hold of me . |
| 40 | I was just going to bed , he said . |
| 41 | I was just going to … ’ |
| 42 | ‘ No , I … was just going to my room . ’ |
| 43 | She was just going to be rather tedious from now on . |
| 44 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 45 | I was just going to our Pam when you come in and of course Joe was saying what 's that like and I never . |
| 46 | I was just going to bingo . |
| 47 | and I would have thought it was absolutely great , you know , he really , I would have though had a stimulating , challenging lovely environment to , to , to be in , I , I , I , I , I hoped that if he was going , I thought he was going to go on , it was just going to be very expensive tt paying his fees , his this |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | They 're gon na catch me ’ and he was just talking to the film crew and not the camera and was not conscious of the fact there was probably 14 million people watching it . |
| 50 | ‘ I was just talking to my bookie , ’ he said crisply , which was the way he treated money troubles . |
| 51 | ‘ I was just talking to myself . |
| 52 | 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 |
| 53 | And er , I was just talking to her and that 's all I can remember . |
| 54 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 55 | Oh is that I was just talking to man . |
| 56 | I do believe there were , there was a high explosive bomb but I think it was just jettisoned to as you wanted to get back home the German pilot he , he landed somewhere up Bluebell Wood but it just exploded and no one was hurt . |
| 57 | ‘ I was just explaining to Michael here about your notes , ’ Simmons interjected , to her relief . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Well it was just damage to my car . |
| 60 | ‘ I was just saying to my friend , there she is scribbling again . ’ |