Example sentences of "just [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drained by his ranting and lulled by the way he could float in the starsuit , just touching the padded interior , he drifted into and out of sleep like a man wandering through the rooms of an empty house . |
| 2 | The machine was manoeuvred so that the tip of the dildo was just touching the lush folds of her sweet vulva . |
| 3 | In some of the wrecks other young women were sitting : Miranda only saw then one naked girl in dark glasses leaning back on the banquette-style front seat of a big old Rover , thin white legs in heels just touching the cinder-strewn wasteground . |
| 4 | Pamela was just completing the fourteenth of the 15 lengths of backstroke she did every morning before breakfast when she realised she was n't alone . |
| 5 | Once you have the sub-menu dropped down you can select from it using the cursor keys to move the highlight bar or by just typing the first letter of the option 's name . |
| 6 | Quickly slipping into a sleeveless straight shirt-waister dress of pink shantung , Laura was just fastening the last button when she heard the sound of the doorbell . |
| 7 | Then in the 18th century , either the choir was awful or the weather was awful , er nobody 's too sure which , but they then settled for just seeing the one thing they knew by memory which was this Eucharistic hymn : Todaym Parchym that they sang in the hall every night as a grace , and that 's how it 's gone on . |
| 8 | I 'm just thinking now that er we changed lots of things , the heads and things of that nature so it was If it 's just producing the same cage |
| 9 | Now the Labour party control the city council , may I say this , that if your feelings are against barbaric sport as much as that , why do n't you use your contr , your controlling power on the city council and then ban boxing in all the city establishments , then you will show me that you mean what you are saying and that you are not just using the present position of this council for a political measure and political gain and I 'd like to also ask what this has cost the council what this has cost could be thousands . |
| 10 | that 's , that 's a new one but we 're just using the old one |
| 11 | Erm , Mr Brighton was was critical of the County Council in just using the residual method to determine the size of the new settlement , er and then in in backing up that justification erm referred to work that is included in in Barton Willmore 's proof , I 've I have read this survey work quite carefully , and my understanding of it is is that erm by un undertaking a survey of settlements in the county , they have established , albeit f f f for information purposes only , a population threshold for a particular type of service , erm , in in the North Yorkshire context , erm the implication I I understand from that is is that that is being used to justify a fourteen hundred figure or or whatever it is to achieve the level of services that would would be required for a a balanced integrated community to use the words for the guidance . |
| 12 | She sat quietly , her freckled girl 's hand just encompassing the big brown mug , as though it had alighted there , her eyes held by the blessed , blissful forsythia that filled the whole kitchen with energy , with pleasure . |
| 13 | They 're just mastering the basic skills of walking and talking , which open up a whole new world for them . |
| 14 | They were close to the canal , and there were several people about , inspecting the expensive fashion jewellery on sale in several shops , or just enjoying the peaceful atmosphere of the lock area . |
| 15 | When the weather is fine this even creates a waving sea of people ; many bidding , many just enjoying the lively atmosphere . |
| 16 | They got a lot of overheads just keeping the big boys off their necks — kickbacks , blood-money , you name it . |
| 17 | Within insurance companies , actuaries have a much wider responsibility than just keeping the statistical score . |
| 18 | If you compare when we first came to Harlow , which is only twenty years ago , the possession of a television set , erm was only just becoming the normal thing |
| 19 | The tram was careering towards Dennistoun and was just passing the Eastern District Hospital . |
| 20 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 21 | If you 're likely to be tackling full-scale plumbing installation work rather than just mending the occasional dripping tap , it will pay you to collect some specialist hand tools . |
| 22 | I was just remarking the other day , I think I brought one of the first Land Rovers to the borders from Edinburgh . |
| 23 | In most cases with either incipient or full spins , any movement forward , or even just relaxing the backward movement of the stick , would prevent or stop the spin immediately . |
| 24 | Communion actually the Holy Communion has become so much more important to us and so much more exciting to us because we 're not just celebrating the living Christ we 're also celebrating the crucified Christ and we 're simply meeting our pain and our joys together in communion with him . |
| 25 | Just presenting the final sum is quite interesting but it does n't really help you get a feel for how well the investment has worked for you . |
| 26 | ‘ Just adding the finishing touches to our dinner . |
| 27 | To my mind the answer is simple : when a critical approach is accepted as a legitimate element of social studies teaching ( and surely a critical approach is not one which is to be avoided ) then textbooks will be obliged to present alternatives , rather than just describing the sexist norm and failing to evaluate it . |
| 28 | Just describing the general principles and answering specific questions with ‘ we 're working on it ’ would n't have been good enough . ’ |
| 29 | The adoral shields are large prominent about twice as long as broad and only just separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 30 | The adoral shields are slightly wing-like , not or just separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |