Example sentences of "[was/were] just [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staff were just removing the latest crop of bodies . |
| 2 | I think we had to accept that the first programmes were just to get the whole thing working really erm . |
| 3 | Perhaps , in spite of the fact that she did need the money , what she ought to do was just catch the first plane back home . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The tram was careering towards Dennistoun and was just passing the Eastern District Hospital . |
| 6 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 7 | Exactly , I was just thinking the same thing . |
| 8 | I was just remarking the other day , I think I brought one of the first Land Rovers to the borders from Edinburgh . |
| 9 | He was just told the bare charge . |
| 10 | The duty plant operator , Lance-Corporal Adcock , was just finishing the first parade service on his equipment — a Henley Hermes fork-lift truck with a twenty-five-ton lifting capacity . |
| 11 | I was just feeling the early morning sun as it warmed the beads of sweat that dripped down my two days ' stubble . |
| 12 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |