Example sentences of "[was/were] just [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 2 | We had no injections , we were just put in a chair and , and it cost |
| 3 | They were just stored in the caverns |
| 4 | Right come the morning arrived and and somebody else I ca n't remember who though , and there we were all ready to go and were walking with the press into the massive great shed where they roll the paper and make it a massive place the size of a couple of football pitches , we were just going in the door and somebody said to me they 're no gon na be using their flash guns are they ? |
| 5 | They drove through the lemon groves , where early workers were just arriving in a lorry to pick the fruit and load it . |
| 6 | you know they take them for a little visit so they get used to the school before they go , which is a good idea , I mean we were just thrown in |
| 7 | By that time my eyes were wide open and I replied : " Oh no , sir , I was just leaning in the corner . " |
| 8 | She was just covered in dressings and things . |
| 9 | George had no idea about the rave that was just beginning in Woodham Woods . |
| 10 | Having gently and efficiently helped Luce into a loose cotton nightdress , the housekeeper was just tucking in the light counterpane when another knock heralded the doctor . |
| 11 | ‘ Me an ’ me wife was just sittin' in one night an' I says : ‘ Oh , it 's bloody useless . ’ ’ |
| 12 | Oh yes I was just reading in the Cosmopolitan how young men of eighteen and women in their late thirties are sexually compatible . |
| 13 | Her father was just leaving in a blue Rolls-Royce . |
| 14 | really , I was just looking in the market . |
| 15 | I looked at him , surprised at his quick recovery , but then I saw he had n't really recovered , he was just pretending in order not to hurt me . |
| 16 | The was just whispering in my ear would it be a good idea for the dep to have er er a community affairs meeting |
| 17 | A few of the pieces were properly stored , with dustsheets and numbered tags , but most of the stuff was just crammed in every which way . |
| 18 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 19 | I never met her and it was just talk in the shops , the corner shops were in those days were the gossip places , you know . |
| 20 | It was just dawn in Shepherd 's Bush , and he could make out without the flame of a candle the narrow , tightly packed words crabbing across the paper . |
| 21 | He was just left in his cot . ’ |
| 22 | t to disobey what John was just saying in those previous few verses . |
| 23 | Beida was just falling in line by removing the large statue , it was argued . |
| 24 | She was just putting in the final sutures when Joanna returned , looking triumphant . |
| 25 | He was just trapped in there with apparently no way out . ’ |
| 26 | He was just staring in disbelief . |
| 27 | ‘ The original plan was just to get in there , and that was suicide . |