Example sentences of "[pron] was just [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was just tryin' to be a help , ’ sniffed Granny Morkie . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I always thought I was just trying to be abstract , in some form or fashion , just trying to get something different . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I was just trying to be hard or something . |
| 4 | I was just trying to be funny , like Ben . |
| 5 | She was just trying to be awkward . |
| 6 | She was just going to be rather tedious from now on . |
| 7 | It was there that I picked up Tom Phillips , an artist who was just beginning to be sought after . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |