Example sentences of "just [v-ing] to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll drop in on the Colonel , and tell him his pretty young secretary is just dying to be bummed ! ’ |
| 2 | I wonder if it 's just some sub-conscious thing that my casualness is really just wanting to be recognised … ’ |
| 3 | Called Crimp 'n Curl , these cuddly cuties have hair that 's just waiting to be styled . |
| 4 | Welcome to Northampton — a town full of hidden treasures just waiting to be discovered . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The entire village is a children 's paradise , a stimulating world just waiting to be discovered . |
| 7 | Calabria is the ‘ travellers ’ destination , just waiting to be discovered . |
| 8 | ‘ Cotton Pickers ’ and ‘ How Strong Is Love ’ are singalong jewels , ‘ Blind Faith ’ is savage and incisive , and there is more , much more , just waiting to be discovered , immediately loved and forever treasured by you . |
| 9 | I thought they all be brilliant , but they were utter shite , so I thought to myself : ‘ There 's a great talent here just waiting to be discovered ! ’ ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Unspoilt , rural landscapes stretch for miles — just waiting to be explored . ’ |
| 11 | Arcevia , overlooking woodlands and hills , is in the midst of these unspoilt rural landscapes with vistas which stretch for miles , just waiting to be explored . |
| 12 | We want three hundred people by the end of this year because the business we 've already got just waiting to be done in phenomenal . |
| 13 | There entrepreneurs identified the existence of a seller 's market just waiting to be developed , and created their own demand , which gathered its own momentum and benefited from a snowball effect . |
| 14 | I 've got a ceiling just waiting to be painted . ’ |
| 15 | Russia was full of resources just waiting to be exploited , and yet if the system did not change , it would be foreign investors that would profit from them . |
| 16 | I knew that we could get an immunity , normally by going to the doctor and having a vaccination or inoculation , but I never knew that right inside every one of us there was a built-in fire brigade , a whole troupe of Red Adair troubleshooters just waiting to be called upon to do their stuff . |
| 17 | ‘ Kelpie may be safe and sound at this very moment , for all we know , just waiting to be collected from somebody who 's found him , so cheer up — do . ’ |
| 18 | Water itself is , of course , a combined source of oxygen just waiting to be liberated via the breakdown of water vapour through photosynthesis . |
| 19 | From the barren Sahara in the south to the fertile wine-producing plains of the north , Tunisia is a land of variety and surprise just waiting to be experienced . |
| 20 | But it is a ready-made blueprint for inequality just waiting to be copied by other reactionary governments . |
| 21 | You remind me of a beautiful ripe peach just waiting to be picked but when you 're opened up — surprise , surprise ! |
| 22 | ‘ It was a timebomb just waiting to be ignited , ’ said a source . |
| 23 | I tried a pink old lady with the future of the universe mapped on her face with linear symbols just waiting to be decoded by anyone who had the wisdom and the patience to want to do so . |
| 24 | Nestling off the east coast of Thailand , the island offers 247 square kilometres of forested hills , deserted coves and wide , sandy beaches just waiting to be enjoyed . |
| 25 | There 's a cool half million pounds in the kitty just waiting to be snapped up … a NEW 50,000 Generation Name Game , the latest thing in family fun … the chance to scoop a fortune on Vernons Pools and , of course , diamonds , diamonds , diamonds . |
| 26 | It 's there in each of us , just waiting to be used ; it 's the dividing line between the survivors and the rest . |
| 27 | The mountains hang everywhere , big vertical peaks just waiting to be climbed . |
| 28 | My thoughts were already perfectly organised , just waiting to be put down on paper . ’ |
| 29 | There as they come and look over the cities , small city , and they see the fields there around the city with the grain waving in the breeze ready and ripe just waiting to be harvested . |
| 30 | The treaty has been signed , sealed and is just waiting to be delivered . |