Example sentences of "[v-ing] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | People will wonder if it is their fault that the person who died in the road traffic accident perhaps was not looking where they were going because of being preoccupied with what was happening just before they left home . |
| 2 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 3 | Meantime , there was a lot happening just down the street to capture his attention , as troop after troop of soldiers passed through Frome on their way somewhere else : 300 of the Staffordshire Militia came in April of 1799 , replaced by an equal number of the same later in the month ; then the 300-strong Somerset Supplementary Militia arrived from Wells , complete with their own band , followed by the glorious Fifteenth Light Dragoons — ‘ It is supposed that these are the finest men and horses of any regiment in England ’ ; and the next year no fewer than nine hundred men of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons came at one go . |
| 4 | This was where things were happening just now . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the Tate hopefully sends out faxes explaining just why Canaletto 's view of the Old Horse Guards , also in Christie 's April 15 sale , is of crucial importance to the British School . |
| 6 | Any claim to ‘ special knowledge ’ through faith or revelation or grace can not avoid the task of explaining just what this knowledge is knowledge of . |
| 7 | Jamila was equally fine and fierce that day , explaining just who her damn body belonged to . |
| 8 | And I always spend the greater part of the first session explaining just what is going to happen and how he is going to feel ; as a result I hope that , by the time we begin the hypnosis itself , the patient will have had all his questions answered and his fears allayed , and will have begun to feel confidence in me and what I am about to do . |
| 9 | But this abolishes , in effect the distinction between particulars and universals , while leaving us with the problem of explaining just what is meant by " different " places and " different " times . |
| 10 | The immediate difficulty here , however , is one of explaining just why a loss of meaning that seems unavoidable in such paraphrases does not affect the truth-value of the relevant propositions . |
| 11 | ‘ Would you mind explaining just what the hell you are talking about ? ’ |
| 12 | Nineteen of the 31 authorities who spent over £3,000 ( see Table 11 ) actually spent £5,000 or more , and it should be noted that this group of 19 library authorities accounted for 55% of the money directly allocated to training by our sample , while employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 13 | As a relatively small number of library authorities carry out a high amount of training , so a small number of libraries spend a high proportion of the money budgeted : 19 libraries accounted for 55% of this money , although employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 14 | Tokyo : Prices hardly moved all day in moderate trading , the Nikkei average ending just 16.43 points higher at 35,382.8 . |
| 15 | Sydney : Directionless trading brought little change , the All Ordinaries index ending just 0.7 ahead at 1,773.2 — but 37.4 points better on the week . |
| 16 | While pottering about her domain she wore old-fashioned riding breeches ending just below the knee , followed by surprisingly pink , surprisingly chubby , bare legs . |
| 17 | For any high flyers considering keeping well above this area , a quick reference to EUR 2 shows an air to air refuelling area of 2600 square miles starting abeam Bristol and Bournemouth and ending just before Land 's End , restricting the air from FL 80 to 180 . |
| 18 | Her sizeable bottom and not-too-marvellous legs were thinly coated with bright yellow silk jeans ending just below the knee ; her bare feet were thrust into pink mules with diamond spike-heels . |
| 19 | For those who find walking just a little to much like hard work , take the longest chairlift in Europe to the ‘ First ’ peak at 7,150 ft and enjoy the glorious views and the grandeur of the mountains without being out of breath ! |
| 20 | Kerly harumphed , and moved off again , walking just as fast as before . |
| 21 | They did n't notice Farquhar , walking just behind with the hounds , watching them carefully and listening very intently for their half-lost whispers . |
| 22 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 23 | He was walking just ahead of her now , checking out the trail in the darkness . |
| 24 | Barbara Stanwyck spent her whole career suffering and dying just because the dreamership could n't stand to see a woman come first . ’ |
| 25 | Her mother had surprised everyone by dying just as they were recovering from her husband 's death . |
| 26 | In condemning these bad films the reviewers were also revealing just how much the movie industry had learnt . |
| 27 | To do this Doctor and his team use specially made apparatus that momentarily stuns the young fish the research programme is continuing , but the results so far are revealing just how well the salmon co-exist with the high tech world of electricity production |
| 28 | Having obtained the appropriate transfer function , the next step is to appreciate that first-order response is provided by a filter incorporating just one reactive component . |
| 29 | Forming the transfer function incorporating just those poles in the negative half of the s-plane . |
| 30 | Maybe because tonight the warning had been a long time sounding , had started its tormented wailing just when everyone began to think the bombers were n't coming . |