Example sentences of "was just [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time my eyes were wide open and I replied : " Oh no , sir , I was just leaning in the corner . " |
| 2 | ‘ Mother , I 'm sorry , I 'm so clumsy , I was just getting off the wall . ’ |
| 3 | But , Debbie was just getting to the stage where she was just to same on the shift , erm , but yes , you need , like , th , the , you get certain people that , they just need the challenge , but then you can find yourself erm , getting into a situation where you 're giving them those extra things to do but you 're taking them away from somebody else , so they 're like just going into the background , you know . |
| 4 | I was just thinking about the practicalities of it . |
| 5 | He was just thinking about the boy in the Post Office when he fell instantly into a deep sleep . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt a nine-match ban was a fair punishment for Davis , who was just breaking into the England squad at the time , and I suspect the FA may make an example of Ian as well . ’ |
| 7 | Oh yes I was just reading in the Cosmopolitan how young men of eighteen and women in their late thirties are sexually compatible . |
| 8 | ‘ I was just looking at the place . |
| 9 | ‘ I was just looking at the scenery . ’ |
| 10 | really , I was just looking in the market . |
| 11 | So as we were going along she was just going into the paper shop and she was on her way up to the one o'clock bus , so I called in to see Jackie and had a coffee and then we come home . |
| 12 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 13 | Ages is n't it I thought I 'd tidy up in his desk and I was just going through the mound of papers , and I said here you are here 's your licence , finish it off , fill it in , and I 'll give you the cheque . |
| 14 | Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes . |
| 15 | The Long Beach of those days was just emerging from the sleaze of being a naval base ; its downtown was full of porn-movie houses , run-down discount shops and ‘ boutiques ’ for the geriatric , who formed a large part of its population . |
| 16 | They 're gon na catch me ’ and he was just talking to the film crew and not the camera and was not conscious of the fact there was probably 14 million people watching it . |
| 17 | oh and we were jus well we just sort of cha , I was just talking about the weather , she was saying how cold it was . |
| 18 | As they passed Mon Ré , the cream-coloured car was just turning into the drive ; and again the two bovine occupants stared at Breeze . |
| 19 | He was just turning from the sink , kettle in hand . |
| 20 | A figure in black was just disappearing into the wood . |
| 21 | He smiled and nodded towards the stage , where Caroline was just disappearing behind the curtains . |
| 22 | She was just walking from the building when she saw Paul Fisher . |
| 23 | She nearly knocked over Nelson , who was just heading towards the lounge , his arm around Billie 's shoulder . |
| 24 | Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue . |
| 25 | By half past seven the sun was just surfacing above the silhouette of the mist-shrouded Siebengebirge , looking like a vast behemoth shouldering its way up into the light . |
| 26 | It was just floating on the surface , not wading or swimming , but unnaturally afloat ; so exhausted it could n't even sit upright . |
| 27 | I mean , pardon me , it 's not my habit , you understand , to pick up on other people 's phone conversations , I was just coming down the stairs here , I could n't — ‘ |
| 28 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 29 | Yet was just climbing through the room on the spiral stair , bearing the last of the packing cases up to the laboratory . |
| 30 | I wish it was yesterday , I wish I was just climbing over the rocks in dear comfortable Mrs McPhee who does n't mind getting wet and lets me breathe — ’ |