Example sentences of "just [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the company is just drawing to the end of a five- year £150 million capital investment programme . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So , that cloud will move out of the way but yet another lump of thick cloud is just appearing on the left of the screen to pose more problems for tomorrow . |
| 4 | I 'm just looking at the selection of flowers . |
| 5 | Just looking at the kind of programmes you 're getting on television now , erm Sunday evening there 's programme about emotions , ‘ Okay Two ’ is n't it called ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm just looking at the report of the officer who called on Delia Forbes . |
| 7 | I walk quietly over the patio , onto the grass and towards the house , just waiting for the blaze of light from the security lamps . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She tells me that ‘ the mother is just going through the process of grieving for the child she has n't had ’ ( the child is already eight months old ) : the health visitor 's instruction in the art of creating unpersons has been exemplary , and no doubt she is keen to pass this on to the mother . |
| 10 | He saw , as though some wall painting had come to life before his eyes , the glitter of steel and the minute clusters of rainbow colours just moving over the crest of one rise , to descend into the next bowl ; and riding towards them , negligently like men out hawking , he saw a smaller group , no more than half a dozen mounted men , who had been until this moment hidden from them by the lie of the land . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | WE WERE just getting over the shock of seeing Arkle 's skeleton when this peacock strutted into the bar . |
| 13 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 14 | By just peeping over the tip of the rock she could dress and watch him , too . |
| 15 | Tamworth , yeah , he works in Tamworth and she has to fetch him cos he does n't drive , sometimes she fetches him a rather that him get the bus home and so she was going along the main she said the name of the road , but I ca n't , th , the number of the road but I ca n't remember she says she saw rats just trotting down the side of the road , you know ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The blades caught , sparked wildly and crashed down on a head just showing through the welter of foam round their legs , knocking it under again . |
| 19 | Erm , I 'm just sitting in the front of the car last night and erm |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's only really the chap on the ground who gets to know what 's going on , gets chatting — and not just chatting with the management of the firm — chatting with the chap that runs the pretreatment plant , y'know , having a cup of tea with him and generally getting to know the individuals and the characters . |
| 22 | Well no just screaming at the top of his voice , our Ben had to bring him down in the end and give him a drink and start again , even then I had to stay with him until he went to sleep |
| 23 | Maybe Rocco 's just hitting to the centre of the greens all the time . |