Example sentences of "[noun] were [v-ing] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The we 're coming closer on the er figures for the er staff turnover and I believe that the four percent , which is easily achievable , on the thirty first of December nineteen ninety two the turnover savings were running just below four percent , alright we just cut some of the post out of today 's budget but I still think if we give the wrong messages to the officers er we 're in danger of spending money that we do n't need to . |
| 2 | Britons Harry Taylor , Mal Duff , Mike Smith and American Bill Pelkey were carrying just half a tent and minimal oxygen when they made their final push . |
| 3 | The frost-bitten Weston brothers were waiting just off the Bath Road near Maidenhead in Berkshire . |
| 4 | And er , it was funny yesterday morning the birds in the village were singing just in the way they do in the spri , in the spring , you know , first light . |
| 5 | It seemed to most onlookers that the first step to take to correct the disparity between the teams was to practise as hard as possible , especially as the West Indians were doing just that themselves ; Gower and Tony Brown , the manager , however , enforced no such ruling . |
| 6 | ‘ You and Salvo were talking just before I came out to breakfast . |
| 7 | This was where things were happening just now . |
| 8 | ‘ The outer ring — where the beams were landing just now ? |
| 9 | Franco interpreted as threatening anything that escaped his personal control , and by May 1941 he had begun to feel that Serrano and his collaborators were doing just that . |
| 10 | I went along to Brigade H.Q The Officers and other ranks were looking just as knackered as the rest of us out in the orchard . |
| 11 | Around the country small groups were doing just that . |
| 12 | Most councils were doing just that . |
| 13 | The Liberal Democrats were averaging just under 19 per cent — a fall of about four per cent on the level of the Liberal-SDP Alliance in 1987 . |