Example sentences of "and [v-ing] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | This frontal assault on goal , he explained to the Examiner , was held to be a ‘ more deadly , if less spectacular , method ’ than the ‘ senseless policy of running along the lines and centring just in front of the goalmouth , where the odds are nine to one on the defenders ’ . |
| 2 | Teenagers frequently appear to be resentful of parents or teachers but in reality this is often a sign that they are testing authority and seeing just how far they can go . |
| 3 | Sort of looking out of your window and seeing just a blank concrete wall in front of you , day after day after day . |
| 4 | Mr and Mrs Lennox were there in style and enjoying just being in the circle instead of up in the gallery where most of Rafferty 's regulars were . |
| 5 | Barbara Stanwyck spent her whole career suffering and dying just because the dreamership could n't stand to see a woman come first . ’ |
| 6 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was sweating and looking just a little desperate as he bent over yet again . |
| 9 | Another marked feature of the service industries is the large amount of female labour they employ : among the highest levels were professional and scientific services where it was 70 per cent by 1970 and in both catering and retailing just over 60 per cent . |
| 10 | The Pennyland estate in Milton Keynes has over 100 houses that have been designed to catch as much sun as possible , cutting annual heating bills by 40 per cent and costing just one per cent more to build . |
| 11 | His report noted the benefits of the machines for enhancing safety and costing just a tenth of ‘ live ’ training , saving millions of pounds . |
| 12 | Time was rolling over him like a huge millstone , a broad grey abrasive surface turning and turning just above him , crushing him smaller , wearing him away . |
| 13 | Do you know what it 's doing to me , standing here seeing you in that robe and wondering just how much you 've got on under it ? |
| 14 | People do n't stop changing and growing just because they are married . |
| 15 | By lifting these and other examples out of the compelling context of the stories in which they are embedded and analysing just how they are weaved in you will probably be able to see how , in the compelling story you are contemplating , a similar device can be used . |
| 16 | There was a flock of gulls now , wheeling and mewing just below the bridge . |
| 17 | Joseph , bare-footed and wearing just a shirt and blanket , had led a charge across the river to rescue the horses . |
| 18 | Lloyd captained West Indies 74 times , winning 36 and losing just 12 , and he twice won the Prudential World Cup . |
| 19 | If , however , she is a more inward-looking person , she may show few of the usual signs of distress connected with bereavement , but she will be dealing with it internally and suffering just as much . |
| 20 | The conventional wisdom of his time , like that of our time , held that the best way to run a business ( or a department ) was to ‘ mind the store ’ — managing one 's field and only one 's field , watching it like a microscope image , getting better and better at knowing and doing just one thing . |
| 21 | The star , whose latest single Will You Marry Me ? is about her wedding to Estevez and bubbling just outside the Top 40 , spent years fighting a weight problem . |
| 22 | Swindon have gained promotion to the Premier Division of the West Clubs League after winning all 16 of their matches , scoring 60 goals and conceding just three . |
| 23 | And having just fought for NCR , Mr Allen is unlikely to propose such a break-up . |
| 24 | That 's the compound radius fingerboard for you , and having just come straight from playing a ‘ 62 reissue Strat , the Manson 's fingerboard around and above the octave felt virtually flat in comparison . |
| 25 | In between work on these sessions — and having just failed to squeeze in the Charlatans and Bob Geldof — he 's been releasing his own dance records under an assumed name and running his own record label , Foundation , for two years . |
| 26 | Morrison consequently goes genre-stomping , singing a great ‘ Vanlose Stairway ’ with the Danish Swing Band , and managing just as comfortably with The Chieftains for a try at ‘ Raglan Road ’ . |
| 27 | Auctioneers had to do a lot of behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing just to get $100,000 aircraft to sell . |
| 28 | There are Houseparties on several other Greek islands , in Menorca ( with its own pool and tennis court ) , on the Algarve ( own pool ) , and at a lovely location in Kenya on Diani Beach , where once you 've gawped at the game there 's a centre to distract you with windsurfing , SCUBA diving and sailing just a few yards through the palm trees . |
| 29 | Weighing under seven stone and standing just five feet two inches tall , there have been times when she was dwarfed by her fellow competitors . |
| 30 | Rabscuttle was full of tricks and games and quite soon he was running and playing just as if he had been one of the children himself . |