Example sentences of "was just [verb] to " 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 | In English I was I was just listening to music . |
| 6 | ‘ I was just tryin' to be a help , ’ sniffed Granny Morkie . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was there that I picked up Tom Phillips , an artist who was just beginning to be sought after . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And at the end , when they flipped on the lights , ‘ everyone was just riveted to him . |
| 14 | And so erm I mean , she knows but , I was just wanting to , to start flowers but |
| 15 | I was barefoot and cold ; all I had on were my underpants and my dressing gown which , by this time , was just ripped to shreds . |
| 16 | In the nineteen sixties an awful lot of er of stuff went , er or was just allowed to er to get into bad repair , and of course er B R were n't terribly interested so they just abandoned it . |
| 17 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |
| 18 | He found at the edge of his consciousness the wish that he was just going to his own flat to crash out rather than back to share Catherine 's warm bed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 21 | Window firm director Norman Waller , 34 , was just going to bed when he saw youths damaging a Vauxhall Cavalier belong to neighbour Bob Fay , Newcastle Crown Court was told . |
| 22 | I was just going to sa , er ask the question if it 's not more celebrated by expatriate Scots ? |
| 23 | I was just going to , when a guard caught hold of me . |
| 24 | I was just going to bed , he said . |
| 25 | I was just going to … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ No , I … was just going to my room . ’ |
| 27 | She was just going to be rather tedious from now on . |
| 28 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 29 | I was just going to our Pam when you come in and of course Joe was saying what 's that like and I never . |
| 30 | I was just going to bingo . |