Example sentences of "[be] just [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smugglers , escaped convicts , drenched fishermen , or they might have been just watching the storm , voyeuristically curious to see a boat break up in choppy water . |
| 2 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
| 3 | I no longer believe that I am just writing a treatment of her life . |
| 4 | I do n't really believe it will ever be made ; I am just providing the raw material which Letterman and some highly paid specialist screenwriter are going to work up into a proper script . |
| 5 | I am not drawing comparisons here , I am just making the point that 500-plus were lost in the Battle of Britain and nearly 700 were lost at Nuremburg on one raid . |
| 6 | They ( the skinheads ) are just wearing the flag because they 're patriotic . |
| 7 | The first rays of the sun are just touching the summit of the Mountain of God . |
| 8 | This applies whether you are just rearranging a room , thinking of buying some new items , or have just moved in and are starting from scratch . |
| 9 | Other sites are just taking a subset of the data , perhaps their own county and a few others nearby . |
| 10 | They could , in fact , be located offshore in shallow water , and lying on the beach watching these large structures with their whirling blades in the murky or hazy distance might be quite satisfying thought that without doing anything they are just providing the nation 's energy , or some of it . |
| 11 | Well that 's basically and for the people who are just buying an odd box . |
| 12 | This book is geared more to those parents who take a major part of the responsibility for the games and are just using the entertainer to bring an additional dimension to the party . |
| 13 | How sort of , seven out of ten of the shops for clothes are just selling the saris |
| 14 | And Wright , whose misery over the weekend was compounded when he wasted a glorious chance to rescue a point for Arsenal , added : ‘ Some people are just having a go at me for the sake of it and it 's beginning to get to me . ’ |
| 15 | " Oh Jim , " we can say , " we are just having a little chat about the I.R.A . " |
| 16 | I know women are involved in the business , but they are just toeing the line , repeating the same old images , playing the men 's game . |
| 17 | If you are just starting a new job of any kind this morning , your first day , then do n't worry , it does n't matter what you do , the odds on the first two things they 'll show you is , where the toilet is , and how to load paper into the photocopier . |
| 18 | ‘ We Majorcans are just starting the night . ’ |
| 19 | But our department has n't changed , the women are just doing the same job as they did sixty |
| 20 | If , however , you are just observing an aggressive attitude on the part of someone else , what is to be achieved by allowing it to make you angry ? |
| 21 | She said : ‘ The message is that the UK government could n't care less , they are just applying a Band-Aid to a mortal wound . ’ |
| 22 | And , if you 're just deleting the one cell , it 's just the two keys . |
| 23 | So we 're just rearranging the first expression , okay , and getting this one right so now we 've got er a decision rule to obtain a , farmers will form their expectation of prices say next year , in T right , on the basis of last year 's price , last year 's actual price and last year 's , the expectation of last year 's actual price okay . |
| 24 | He says you could argue we 're just transferring the pollution from the streets to the power station . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're just hoping the dead man does n't ask for his tendon back , ’ added the manager . |
| 26 | He thinks you 're just writing an article . |
| 27 | They 're just mastering the basic skills of walking and talking , which open up a whole new world for them . |
| 28 | At a rally addressed by Labour 's Dennis Healey , they spent most of the time trying to avoid one of their school dinner ladies , who was forever shouting to the platform : ‘ You 're just feathering the beds for the Tories . ’ |
| 29 | White friends that I 've got , their mums argued at first , but now they 're just bringing the baby up as their own . |
| 30 | You 're just buying a house . |