Example sentences of "[am/are] just [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ At the moment I am just flowing with the tide , following whatever is on offer to me that I like .
2 They are just queuing at the door , waiting to be let in .
3 But most of them are just hiding behind the image .
4 ‘ Looks like they are just comin' over the Cathedral wall .
5 If the latter , this should be done in late summer or early autumn , when the main summer growth has flowered and is beginning to wither , but new shoots are just appearing at the base of the plant .
6 A lot of time we 're just messing with the amp and getting it sounding pretty cool , and then the engineer will whack something on it and away you go . ’
7 But you 've decided why you , you 're just rising to the bait then are n't you , if these arguments are between you , and you 're coming out with all this , it just makes you look stupid because you 're , you 're into , are n't you ?
8 They 're just jumping on the bandwagon .
9 Yes , we 've got er , I think we 're , we 're just packing at the moment
10 We 're just getting to the end of that now , we 'll be another mark on the er five year list you know between eighty seven and ninety two .
11 He went , you 're just a drop-out , you 're just sponging off the government .
12 And we 're just looking at the route to In the previous er conditions of service we merely mentioned the time for which you were n't entitled to sick pay and the time after which you were entitled to full sick pay which we defined , we did n't define the route .
13 No , but you 're just looking at the pen .
14 Yeah I know it 's easier no you must feel really gutted , I mean I would I know , because as you said , you going out for ten months yeah exactly , yeah , exactly I mean come on you really liked him fancied him loved him oh wow , I said love , love love , I do n't know love hey man yeah yeah it 's probably , you know like when you dumped him for Danny it 's just probably like that yeah exactly exactly , so do n't worry oh come on he ca n't give up ten months for nothing I know it has to end someday , but it does n't I mean it 's like everyone thinks like that , it really annoys me , everybody , right who 's about our age yeah , they just go out with someone knowing that one day it 's gon na end , they 're just waiting for the day , and that you know , you should go out with someone with the intentions of being with them forever I know that sounds pathetic , but it 's true , yeah I know , yeah exactly yeah , yeah I know , why do you think I said it ?
15 ‘ Here , they 're just sitting in the station , waiting for phone calls . ’
16 We 're just rehearsing at the moment . ’
17 You could perhaps team up with somebody else if you wanted to , so if you see someone and we 're just going through the order in which they appear .
18 Before you always felt that someone 's got this under control and they 're just going to the wire , but now they 've crossed the wire . ’
19 They 're just going across the road . ’
20 I said , they 're just coming down the road , I said the first thing your father 'll say , has it got a plug on it ?
21 You 're just paying for the convenience , are n't you , really with tea-bags , that they 're just all sealed , you know .
22 No , I 'm just joking for the tape .
23 When she left the pool side , she said to her father , ‘ I 'm just popping into the bank with Mr Corduroy . ’
24 I 'm just looking at the selection of flowers .
25 ‘ I 'm just looking at the report of the officer who called on Delia Forbes .
26 I 'm just slipping down the hill being bumped by people but I do n't hardly notice .
27 At the end we er , of the day I had to opt out because it was n't possible for me to fit in and someone else a , I 'm just thinking of the time taken for er , er housing manager or one of his er , staff to erm er , you know , to do that practical thing that 's all
28 ‘ I 'm just thinking about the future .
29 but what I 'm saying is , awareness now , I 'm just slagging off the awareness .
30 ‘ But I 'm just going to the loo .
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