Example sentences of "was just [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ No , I was just lookin' for a bit more money , honest , ’ gasped Dolly , the knife a hideous threat . |
| 3 | ‘ Mother , I 'm sorry , I 'm so clumsy , I was just getting off the wall . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No , he said , he was just disagreeing with a view put to him by the interviewer — just as Lady Thatcher herself would have disagreed with it . |
| 6 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 7 | He was just thinking about the boy in the Post Office when he fell instantly into a deep sleep . |
| 8 | Oh yes I was just reading in the Cosmopolitan how young men of eighteen and women in their late thirties are sexually compatible . |
| 9 | He was just recuperating after a fall , was overwhelmed by other commitments , and knew that to pick up the threads of work he had done 15 years before and write it up in French in only two months was a Herculean task . |
| 10 | Yes , in fact I was just looking at a figure , a four million pound campaign in total is going to be launched , is it not , to persuade Britons to take holidays in their own country . |
| 11 | ‘ I was just looking at the place . |
| 12 | ‘ I was just looking at the scenery . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah I was just looking for a memory jogger here , I just could n't remember what it was |
| 14 | I was just looking for a reference |
| 15 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 16 | really , I was just looking in the market . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I was just going for a wash , ’ said Julia who was well aware that Miss Coldharbour would make the connection between those two statements . |
| 19 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As they passed Mon Ré , the cream-coloured car was just turning into the drive ; and again the two bovine occupants stared at Breeze . |
| 26 | He was just turning from the sink , kettle in hand . |
| 27 | A figure in black was just disappearing into the wood . |
| 28 | She was just walking from the building when she saw Paul Fisher . |
| 29 | She nearly knocked over Nelson , who was just heading towards the lounge , his arm around Billie 's shoulder . |
| 30 | Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue . |