Example sentences of "was just [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How they did n't see me , I 'll never know , 'cos I was just huddled up in the corner of the alley . |
| 2 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 3 | He was just getting out of the car and he could just get back in it and move out with the same expertise . |
| 4 | As he helped her up , her gaze went past to him to Sabine , who was just getting out of the car to offer her assistance . |
| 5 | I was just getting back into the driving seat when there was a shout and a figure emerged from the gully about fifty metres above me . |
| 6 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 7 | ‘ She said she was just popping out for a minute , ’ she replied . |
| 8 | having your normal period was n't ever mentioned , I was just sent along to the lav , my sister came with me , she said ‘ you wear this ’ , and that was that — My mother never even mentioned it … you got married and you had children , I did n't know there was such a thing that you could not have them and it just went on and on . |
| 9 | He was evidently very well educated , and he was just turned out on the road , and I do n't know where he is now . |
| 10 | It was n't even in a fridge or nothing — it was just pressed up against the window to keep it cold . |
| 11 | I was just moving out of the way . |
| 12 | I was just fed up with the whole situation . |
| 13 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 14 | ‘ After that I was just lying down in a hospital bed . ’ |
| 15 | Because it was an old house that they were renovating , and it had got so much rot in it and woodworm , and he said he said he said th there they were walking up one minute and the next minute the piano was just going down through the stairs . |
| 16 | She was just going out of the door . |
| 17 | I found in Northumberland , the worst bit was it was just going out in the cold to the shower . |
| 18 | So erm I was feeling a bit edgy about this when we were in the pub after the concert cos I thought maybe he 's reading things into it and I , you know , I was just going along for the music . |
| 19 | It was just taken out of the welfare every week . |
| 20 | I asked several times but eventually was just caught up in the crowds . ’ |
| 21 | I was just walking around with a huge grin on my face . |
| 22 | I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back . |
| 23 | He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall . |
| 24 | He said I was just covering up for the fact that I had n't the faintest idea of what was wrong . ’ |
| 25 | Blindly , she followed him , and in the entrance she bumped into Stan , a burly policeman in black waterproofs who was just heading out of the department . |
| 26 | The sun was just coming up over the far bank , trailing a red reflection across the water . |
| 27 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 28 | He finished in great style but was just nosed out in a three-way photo , and is improving sufficiently to shrug off an extra four pounds from the handicapper . |
| 29 | A police photographer was just finishing up in the corner of the room where Doyle had fallen . |
| 30 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |