Example sentences of "was just [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I always thought I was just trying to be abstract , in some form or fashion , just trying to get something different . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I was just trying to be hard or something . |
| 3 | I was just trying to be funny , like Ben . |
| 4 | She was just trying to be awkward . |
| 5 | ‘ I was just tryin' to be a help , ’ sniffed Granny Morkie . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was there that I picked up Tom Phillips , an artist who was just beginning to be sought after . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was just going to be one big thud when I hit the deck and then all would be over — my arm would stop hurting and no more 109s could make dirty passes at me behind my back . |
| 11 | She was just going to be rather tedious from now on . |
| 12 | and I would have thought it was absolutely great , you know , he really , I would have though had a stimulating , challenging lovely environment to , to , to be in , I , I , I , I , I hoped that if he was going , I thought he was going to go on , it was just going to be very expensive tt paying his fees , his this |
| 13 | It was just happened to be spotted by Richard , fortunately , whilst he was erm , between jobs and actually being up a steps , walked in a saw the smoke coming out of one of the er , main switch areas . |
| 14 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |