Example sentences of "[was/were] doing just " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also vital to raise the nuclear threshold in Europe by increasing the level of conventional forces , and yet the British , for all too obvious financial reasons , were doing just the opposite ! |
| 2 | Most councils were doing just that . |
| 3 | It seemed to most onlookers that the first step to take to correct the disparity between the teams was to practise as hard as possible , especially as the West Indians were doing just that themselves ; Gower and Tony Brown , the manager , however , enforced no such ruling . |
| 4 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |
| 5 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 6 | Around the country small groups were doing just that . |
| 7 | Franco interpreted as threatening anything that escaped his personal control , and by May 1941 he had begun to feel that Serrano and his collaborators were doing just that . |
| 8 | But you had a way of going straight to the two ninety in one go , do you remember what that was ? you 'd worked on it yourself , you you were doing just nicely . |
| 9 | Fifteen minutes later they were doing just that . |
| 10 | ‘ You were doing just fine without me . ’ |
| 11 | Erika was still not completely sure what the text meant but one thing about it was clear , people had better things to do than to dwell on the past and surely — it came upon Erika in a flash of intuition — surely the State was doing just that : not , of course , leaving the dead unmourned , and certainly not forgetting the evils of Fascism , but moving forward — preaching a socialist gospel — and not merely preaching it , doing it : making a fairer , better , juster Germany . |
| 12 | They accepted his assurance that he was a gynaecologist who wanted to help women and that his Harley Street-based Courtney Foundation was doing just that . |
| 13 | Now Pascoe was doing just that and Zeno was between him and the gate . |
| 14 | ‘ At the same time , in the back of my mind , there was the thought that , actually , I had a distant connection who was doing just the same thing . ’ |
| 15 | And now he was doing just that . |
| 16 | It would be too much to hope to sneak up on Agnes peering around the comer under the alley light but — but a man was doing just that . |
| 17 | Do n't get mad , get even , she thought , and knew he was doing just that . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid not , Miss Kingsdale , ’ he apologised , and , as he passed a reservation card over to her to complete , Fabia , with her thoughts totally elsewhere , discovered that she was doing just that . |
| 19 | He says that Murray always tried to help others , and it was doing just that which led to the tragedy . |