Example sentences of "[was/were] just [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who made money demanded respect ; people who had none were just trash to be trampled underfoot , no matter what other gifts they had . |
| 2 | Before , we were just listening to everybody else telling us to keep on playing and carry on doing this and that , but that was really just because they were afraid we were going to be a flash in the pan . |
| 3 | The conditions for the crossing were not much worse than for the criminals who were just beginning to be shipped across from England in the 1670s , and the death rates were not much higher . |
| 4 | It is thought to be unlikely that the action will be settled out of court , and prospects of a rapprochement between the OSF and Sun — that were just beginning to be talked about ( UX No 379 , 380 ) — now appear remote . |
| 5 | The flowers bloomed happily in the soft sunshine , complemented by the gently swaying leaves of the trees , which were just beginning to be touched by the colours of autumn . |
| 6 | Although the stark trees were just beginning to be in leaf , and familiarity had lessened the menacing air of the place , Theda still found herself uncomfortable within it . |
| 7 | on that to sort of show you the power of the system we were just using to erm The obvious thing to do is to label every area of the diagram , and do n't forget they do sometimes say , Seven were not interested in |
| 8 | I were just pretending to him , because I ai n't really full of beans . |
| 9 | You were just pandering to prejudices — ‘ |
| 10 | One suspects that most computer scientists would like to believe that elegant data structures for organising all forms of information , together with powerful formalisms for manipulating and reasoning about it , have always pre-existed in some sense , and were just waiting to be discovered . |
| 11 | But I know that er the one or two people who told me that they 're going , er we were just going to the service in the church and then |
| 12 | He probably realised we were just going to sea . |
| 13 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 14 | They reached the surgery door at the same time as the strange little group and , as they ushered their client in , he said , ‘ We were just going to Sheldrake and Woodall when we saw your plate on Broom House gate . ’ |
| 15 | And people were just saying to me what 's the matter ? |
| 16 | When Diana joined the Stewart-Richardsons they were just coming to terms with a family tragedy . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I always thought I was just trying to be abstract , in some form or fashion , just trying to get something different . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I was just trying to be hard or something . |
| 19 | I was just trying to be funny , like Ben . |
| 20 | She was just trying to be awkward . |
| 21 | In English I was I was just listening to music . |
| 22 | ‘ I was just tryin' to be a help , ’ sniffed Granny Morkie . |
| 23 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 24 | While school education was just beginning to be suspected of extravagance , in the early sixties , paradoxically there was an explosion of growth in university education . |
| 25 | For research purposes , the laboratory was just beginning to be separated from the kitchen ; but for the nineteenth century the centres were the laboratory and the museum . |
| 26 | It was there that I picked up Tom Phillips , an artist who was just beginning to be sought after . |
| 27 | Yes they have , very special gear in , in breathing apparatus and protective clothing , er which I did n't have in my early days , I mean breathing apparatus was just beginning to be used . |
| 28 | But , Debbie was just getting to the stage where she was just to same on the shift , erm , but yes , you need , like , th , the , you get certain people that , they just need the challenge , but then you can find yourself erm , getting into a situation where you 're giving them those extra things to do but you 're taking them away from somebody else , so they 're like just going into the background , you know . |
| 29 | And at the end , when they flipped on the lights , ‘ everyone was just riveted to him . |
| 30 | And so erm I mean , she knows but , I was just wanting to , to start flowers but |