Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [v-ing] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 2 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |
| 3 | The front cover says , how would you feel if you were working just as hard today as ten years ago , but earning a third less ? |
| 4 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 5 | But you had a way of going straight to the two ninety in one go , do you remember what that was ? you 'd worked on it yourself , you you were doing just nicely . |
| 6 | ‘ You were doing just fine without me . ’ |
| 7 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |
| 8 | Now you were saying just then that erm parts of the were different than the other parts . |
| 9 | Aye well you see it we used to it does n't matter how she jumped and rolled , we were eating just the same . |
| 10 | " The old bird we were chasing just put on an extra spurt , and I banged my chin on the ground so hard I though a tree had fallen on me ! " |
| 11 | The Maggot whooped , dragged the stick back and our earthwards wing lifted and suddenly we were screaming just above the palm trees , close to the tiled roofs and at a speed that seemed to be doubled because of our proximity to the ground . |
| 12 | We were talking just last night about how the people here seem to love us , and I said , ‘ Well , I do n't really take that personally — more that we were connected with a happening . ’ |
| 13 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 14 | They were struggling just afterwards , as fly-half Paul Roblin put Park into the lead with a drop goal . |
| 15 | Fifteen minutes later they were doing just that . |
| 16 | Yes , they were parking just now . |