Example sentences of "we were just " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were just about to leave when [ the girl ] called to [ the neighbourhood policemen ] . |
| 2 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
| 3 | We were just in our early twenties by the time I left The Pistols , beginning to find our way in the world , starting to get more confidence . |
| 4 | They were meant to be a pro group while we were just starting out . |
| 5 | Mick Ronson , Woody Woodmansey and myself would be making backing tracks , having got the brief from David — it was E chord for 16 bars then an A chord for 4 bars and a B chord for 2 bars — and we were just banging out these backing tracks , and David would come into the studio , if we could tear him away from Angela for long enough and say whether he liked it or not . |
| 6 | We were just talking . ’ |
| 7 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 8 | We were just wondering what to do next when Elinor came running in waving a letter . |
| 9 | ‘ We were just going to ring the police , ’ Bedelia said . |
| 10 | We were just sitting down to our dinner when the chief Druid came in sight with his begging bowl and Tony got under the bed . |
| 11 | We were just sitting down when Nutty burst in with his smelly Brits and they stuck their fingers in the cooking pot . |
| 12 | We were just watching 4 What It 's Worth about all those people who go on holiday to the sunny Mediterranean , having booked a sea view , and come back with gastroenteritis from living over the dustbins and now want their money back , when Elinor came running up the garden path closely followed by Nigel . |
| 13 | ‘ We were just a bit concerned that he was left on his own so late at night . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We were just a little too ambitious for the second test , ’ Roirbak said , standing up . |
| 15 | ‘ We were just saying , ’ murmured Bromley , ‘ that we did n't expect any foreigners here . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ After all , ’ Katerina Hartmann defiantly says , ‘ we were just fighting for our country like the rest of the world . ’ |
| 17 | As it was we were just too much and he had enough trouble coping with himself . ’ |
| 18 | We were just in time to watch the evening rush hour . |
| 19 | In marriage we thought we were just ‘ getting together ’ . |
| 20 | We were just deprived of doing what we do — just going in the studio and making records . |
| 21 | By the end of it we were just a shot oft Paul Azinger 's lead . |
| 22 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |
| 23 | We were just about to go abroad when our usual nanny was taken ill and was advised not to travel . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , we were just talking . ’ |
| 25 | I was talking to this other lad across the road — we were due to go off duty at two and we were just hanging about before making our way down to the station — there was no relief for us on that shift . |
| 26 | People later thought that she was my manager , but we were just good friends . |
| 27 | I started thinking about AIDS — we were just beginning to hear about it then , though we were n't too sure how you could contract it . |
| 28 | No one expected to achieve anything much after lunch , so the mood was languid and light-hearted , as though we were just pretending . |
| 29 | Because God does not require reminding that we were just as good Jews without ostentation . |
| 30 | Perhaps this was because with two full tanks and six people aboard we were just short of the 5,090-pound max weight — or more likely Tony was deliberately limiting the output of his nearly-new engine below the normal 36 inches and 2,300 rpm , but the long Wiplines seemed to have a much less clearly defined hump than other floats I have flown . |