Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flames were already flickering just beneath the surface , waiting to be fanned into fierce , burning life . |
| 2 | They were always lying just below the surface of their life . |
| 3 | In condemning these bad films the reviewers were also revealing just how much the movie industry had learnt . |
| 4 | Andy Kyle and Dr. Stephen Bonnard were modestly waiting just behind it . |
| 5 | We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag . |
| 6 | On Cable TV , in pirated tapes in bars , you could watch him watching a buddy screw another woman until she had to complain it was all getting just too wild . |
| 7 | Long before California and Australia elected to name their wines after the grape variety or varieties from which they were produced , Alsace was already doing just that . |
| 8 | She said she was just having just the usual drinking gear and er |
| 9 | The first two weekends of the 1977 season were for Mario anyway marred by accidents : in Argentina the nose-mounted fire extinguisher exploded , and in Brazil he found himself sitting in a pool of petrol and got out of the car while it was still moving just as his cockpit went up in flames . |
| 10 | The audience was given no hint that he was envisaging the terms as an antithesis , let alone that he was feeling his way towards significant categories of thought , although from various notes from the winter of 1869–70 it is clear that he was now doing just that . |
| 11 | One image sticks in my mind from Brands Hatch that year , a race at which Ronnie , who was then lying just about level with Mario , had taken a notable pole position . |