Example sentences of "be just [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | She began showing up at whatever hotel he was working at during the day , claiming to have been just passing . |
2 | ‘ I would probably still be running anyway , but the Veteran scene has kept me motivated when I might have been just drifting around with my running . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | It 's been just lying here . |
5 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
6 | The roof is in a right mess because the water 's been just pouring through . |
7 | April , who until now had been just sitting there , at this point , to give her her due , showed symptoms of unease . |
8 | I am just filling in the days , she thought — until Edmund returns . |
9 | So I am just throwing it out in the air , I do n't think it 's that s |
10 | I think you will destroy them ; you are a ruthless woman ; how ruthless I am yet to know and am just beginning to discern . |
11 | I am not saying that unpleasantly : I am just recognising that there is a philosophical divide between us . |
12 | ‘ I am just remembering how you and Dame Martha saw Lady Eleanor on the night before she died . |
13 | ‘ I do not say it will happen , I am just telling you . ’ |
14 | I am sure you already now that the WISE activities are important but I am just telling you all this in confirmation of your instincts … ’ |
15 | ‘ It honestly has n't crossed my mind , I am just enjoying being back , ’ he said . |
16 | ‘ I am just hoping and praying he is not going to be used as a human shield . |
17 | I am just writing to recommend Central American Cichlids to the beginners in the hobby . |
18 | I no longer believe that I am just writing a treatment of her life . |
19 | I am just writing to note that yet another transport consultation paper has turned up on my desk — this time its on the ‘ proposed legislative response to recommendations in noise review report ’ . |
20 | Generally , however , I am just looking forward to another good season — and I think I 'll make it because I have never been so settled or contented in my life . ’ |
21 | 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 . |
22 | There are some cases where I am just holding on to them and not cashing them in . ’ |
23 | I am just trying to make up my mind whether to stay overnight with my cousin Katy McKay or walk to Achnacarry . ’ |
24 | Right , so by looking at the graph , I am just trying to impress upon you that structural change can not always be spotted simply by looking at the data right , anyway , let's now move on to estimate our first model . |
25 | Sorry I am just trying . |
26 | ‘ I have never given the Olympic Games a thought I am just plodding my way through the season , racing here and there , ’ he said . |
27 | ‘ At the moment I am just flowing with the tide , following whatever is on offer to me that I like . |
28 | I think I am just starting out on the steep , rocky — and lots of other corny metaphors — road to recovery . |
29 | I have just turned 21 and I think at this age I am just starting to grow up anyway . |
30 | I am just starting my work . |