Example sentences of "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 .
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