Example sentences of "[was/were] just [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they were just taking the piss . |
| 2 | We were just taking the mickey . |
| 3 | But erm certainly we were a lot worse off , cos we we were just earning a day rate , instead of any bonus you know we had no bonus at all . |
| 4 | It appeared that the naval guns , about five or six miles back in the English Channel , were either trying to break another German attack or were just shelling the enemy positions ! |
| 5 | This works slightly differently from the one Kev 's suggesting , coz we did n't have to go through auctions and all that , we were just given a list of players with their prices , and given 20 million to spend . |
| 6 | Praps they were just getting a little fed up of Wilko selling players for nothing when he decided he did nt want them any more ? |
| 7 | Actually , it was n't that hard to miss them , because the real blues players were just getting no exposure at the time . |
| 8 | Borg said afterwards that he and Lloyd were just getting the feel of the game when they lost it . |
| 9 | Zoff , one of the biggest names in Italian football , clarified the whole situation when he said : ‘ We were just discussing a technical point . |
| 10 | I thought you were just bringing the bridge . |
| 11 | But the defendants claimed they were just using the boards to shelter behind on a windy day , while they had a cup of tea . |
| 12 | Her mind swung away from her brother and she told herself that she could n't see herself spending her life with someone whose toes were just touching the ground ; her nature demanded stability . |
| 13 | As it was only eleven thirty in the morning there were quite a few people who thought that it would be fun to go out and play in the floods and others who were just lending a hand to those in difficulty . |
| 14 | We were just enjoying the calm and the peace of today . |
| 15 | He smiled infuriatingly at her , lifting a hand to run it over his dark hair , seemingly as relaxed as though they were just sharing a pleasant little chat rather than this frosty interview . |
| 16 | The staff were just removing the latest crop of bodies . |
| 17 | They were kidding themselves if they believed they were just electing a bunch of councillors to run local services . |
| 18 | God knows how I did n't kill myself and the sheer of the whole thing was , it was n't even on the second floor , it was on the ground floor , they were just pulling a . |
| 19 | Perhaps some were just following the current fashionable tour . |
| 20 | ‘ The victims were just having a good time . ’ |
| 21 | We were just having a hot drink . |
| 22 | They were just having a peaceful protest , sitting there and linking arms : no threats or fear of violence . |
| 23 | So she were just having a crumpet , she 's but butter were all melting , I says I can just picture now running down your chin and |
| 24 | so she were just having a few crumpets |
| 25 | I think we had to accept that the first programmes were just to get the whole thing working really erm . |
| 26 | Getting the information onto the printer meant that a page description language became essential if Apple were to avoid the problems faced by manufacturers who were just treating the Canon engine as a high quality dot matrix printer . |
| 27 | Someone nicked Brix 's earrings and this lad just walked up and grabbed Mark E Smith 's beer and just walked off with it and Mark was juts like making out like he thought it was really ‘ cool ’ being robbed by these street kids , these really horrible street kids who were just ripping the piss out of them … ‘ |
| 28 | Yeah , it 's exactly that kind of experience that I think has got me thinking about what I was saying before you came , well before we were just doing the coffee , about the idea of actually starting to draw , well I was calling contracts , but probably it 's more better called agreements , about you know , the theatre will do this , we will do that and |
| 29 | They were just finishing the apple pie when the phone rang . |
| 30 | So they were just playing the music that they liked . |