Example sentences of "[was/were] just [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colonel Lin Foh , and two bodyguards , were just stepping into the adjacent lift . |
| 2 | We did n't have the finances to run a proper test programme and we were just falling behind the other teams . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Erm you know when you 're th we were just talking about the upper room , and erm and the great wind that was noise that was felt . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 7 | No I was just , I was just thinking about the same . |
| 8 | The half-hour was just ringing from the massive bell tower , there was a muffled sound of organ practice from the chapel , the light was burning in the porter 's lodge and the gate lay open — but not to me . |
| 9 | Do n't forget the landslip had taken place only that morning , Orrie Benyon was just cordoning off the dangerous area and putting up warning notices . |
| 10 | Well erm from , from my observation of catalogues and I was just looking through the other day , lighting does n't alter very much , there 's nothing very impressive in any of the catalogues really |
| 11 | He was just turning into the featureless modern office block that housed the Heyes-Farringdon Company where Helen worked , when his eye was suddenly caught by a sign on the other side of the street : The Olivera Typewriter Company . |
| 12 | He was just losing for the third time when Celia walked back in , Mitch behind her . |
| 13 | She was just finishing with the last when there was a shout from Reception . |
| 14 | She was just putting in the final sutures when Joanna returned , looking triumphant . |
| 15 | And he was just crossing over the dual carriageway to reach the northbound lane when the Status Quo tour bus ran over him . |
| 16 | It was just aimed at the wrong person . ’ |
| 17 | In truth the name was just derived from the Sicilian ( fasci ) for a group . |