Example sentences of "just [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but what I 'm saying is , awareness now , I 'm just slagging off the awareness . |
| 2 | He 's just recovering of course . |
| 3 | December 8 , 1924 : I am at the moment just recovering from a heavy bout of drinking . |
| 4 | Theresa had a transplant in 1989 and was just recovering from that ordeal when she had a brain haemorrhage and went into a coma for three months . |
| 5 | The city was just recovering from one of the usual bouts of plague which come in late winter ; its citizens , however , sensed the worst was over and the streets buzzed like an overturned hive . |
| 6 | ‘ Standing on chairs is n't to be recommended when you 're just recovering from a sprained ankle . |
| 7 | He says that they were only just recovering from making cuts last year , now they 're having to do the same again ; only this time there will be redundancies . |
| 8 | My husband , just recovering from hospital treatment himself , must now care for me , entailing 24-hour supervision . |
| 9 | So , in that spirit , you can put together a library from whatever source you choose — just trolling round the many Bulletin Board Systems using a fast modem can net you gigabytes of files , and some really good stuff too . |
| 10 | You were just pandering to prejudices — ‘ |
| 11 | And unless you answer that question , you 're just pandering to people 's emotions . |
| 12 | This would be searchable in either direction , which could be useful in some parallel application for string searching , or just allowing for reverse searching because the end of the string is more restrictive . |
| 13 | Just sniffing about , you know see what 's going on . |
| 14 | Having gently and efficiently helped Luce into a loose cotton nightdress , the housekeeper was just tucking in the light counterpane when another knock heralded the doctor . |
| 15 | A man lies on the sidewalk outside Tiffany 's , passers-by just stepping over him . |
| 16 | Colonel Lin Foh , and two bodyguards , were just stepping into the adjacent lift . |
| 17 | Unemployed workers are like unemployed actors : they are ‘ just resting between engagements ’ . |
| 18 | He 'd as good as admitted he 'd gone off her sexually by saying he preferred just resting in her , motionless . |
| 19 | Indeed , the company is just drawing to the end of a five- year £150 million capital investment programme . |
| 20 | The pupils decided that they were the same in that context and were satisfied that there were only three different shapes if they did not allow fences in the middle or squares just touching at the corners . |
| 21 | The radial shields are distinct separated or just touching at their distal ends , and irregularly triangular nearly as wide as broad . |
| 22 | Authorities of all types and sizes commented on this problem , some just touching on it , others indicating that it is now paramount to them : |
| 23 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 24 | After visiting the Hayward Gallery I spent a half-hour just gazing along the river line , the historic buildings sharp in the clear , cold , sunny air . |
| 25 | He had nodded , open-mouthed , and would have liked to have stayed longer , just gazing at the beauties , but Molly had hurried him away . |
| 26 | She was not the only one with the same idea , because on arriving at Clarendon Road there was quite a sizeable crowd , just gazing at the still smouldering ruin of a terrace of five houses . |
| 27 | There she was , sitting forlornly in a corner and , unlike all the other dogs , making no noise , just gazing at the floor in a philosophical way . |
| 28 | Look at what you 've written and think , Oh I was just fumbling about here I did n't know where I was going . |
| 29 | Just , just typing with any erm |
| 30 | This state is achieved with persistence and discipline , for example , to flop into bed in a state of mental anxiety , then just crashing into sleep , is not the best way to recharge . |