Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've seen we 'd been firing just observa observation beams they were sixty pounder guns . |
| 2 | By his early teens , he had been driving just such a cart ; clopping down the Dorset lanes , in the early summer sun … |
| 3 | The other diners who mostly had n't been listening just clapped . |
| 4 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 5 | Sir Hugo had been riding just behind the hounds . |
| 6 | The trainer now reports : ‘ Arazi is an intelligent horse , much more mature , and in his work he has been doing just what he has to do . ’ |
| 7 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 8 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 9 | To this end , unbeknown to the millions who have brought about the event , Jesus Christ has been cast in the role of a surrogate Created God , and by ascribing to him all that goodness that they wish to preserve , those who profess the Christian faith , have been doing just what the concept of the Created God requires , and what this book advocates , except that they have deified a single historical individual , Jesus Christ , instead of an abstract conception drawing its being from a myriad of sources . |
| 10 | SCO 's development partner DEC will have to soldier on alone , if it has not been doing just that for some time ( UX No 364 ) , if it intends to put OSF/1-for-ACE on its MIPS R4000 machines . |
| 11 | So much is made these days of the high-profile young dance companies who are ‘ trying to find their own vocabularies of movement ’ , that it is all too easy to forget those who have been doing just that , very quietly , for a long time . |
| 12 | She had known why Mr Evans had sent Hepzibah biscuits ; had known that he wanted her to spy , to keep her eyes open , and it seemed that without meaning to she had been doing just that ! |
| 13 | When such researchers have been doing just this for over 100 years , is it not sensible to take note of what they are saying ? |
| 14 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 15 | Anyway , all the other young men were away at the war , Gustav must have been spending just about all his time indoors , young love wove its spell and … ‘ ow 's yer father ? ’ |
| 16 | I think you 've got quite a significant amount of money which you could offset what we 've been saying just grieves me . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't believe the customers have been coming just to hear me . ’ |
| 18 | Sure enough old Alan green was there , quite obviously watching a different match to that Id been watching just minutes earlier . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But all the way through this chapter I have been asserting just the contrary . |
| 21 | She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I did n't have a big name in the business as I 'd been concentrating just on working , so I was n't a star and could n't force through any changes . |