Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] just [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just trying work out when Robert left school and whether he would be the first lot , but he wo n't be . |
| 2 | There was never any budget and so I was just using stuff that I 'd already recorded here and there — hence the roughness of it . |
| 3 | I was just making conversation , ’ she answered with dignity ; and he tried to look chastened . |
| 4 | ROS : I was just making conversation . |
| 5 | I was just making supper when that stupid eunuch came along making a great commotion . ’ |
| 6 | I was just playing bass in my bedroom before I joined The Lost Pandas , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Erm it 's also the case that , particularly when abuse is of this sort of y'know like I was just describing y'know stroking , caressing , all that kind of things um it a lot of erm in some cases very confused feelings on the part of the people who 've been abused . |
| 8 | I was just killing time . |
| 9 | And I was reading , I was n't even doing anything , I was just sitting reading and the teacher walked in and I did n't hear him . |
| 10 | Um and erm I was just wondering y'know kind of erm often when I write questionnaires I like to go for a sort of more kind of rather less declarative statements . |
| 11 | ‘ Aw , I was just having fun , ’ said the dog . |
| 12 | And t' other week I were up there and I I was just asking woman just as a matter of interest love , I said , how much . |
| 13 | She was just saying stuff . |
| 14 | We were just telling Jacqui here , we are absolutely desolated … ’ |
| 15 | We were just cooking dinner in the kitchen when in walked Audrey Fyfe and Margaret Russell , friends from the Lothian section of the CTC ! |
| 16 | does n't always go down too well but well in the end I went in to their bedroom and actually they were awake , they were just laying sort of a bit sleepily on the bed together on Katie 's , both on Katie 's bed . |
| 17 | On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house . |
| 18 | The person in the back fell off the seat in the cab — it was just raining glass everywhere . |
| 19 | I tell you when I was in here it was just keeping calm . |
| 20 | Just lovely And was no broken again it was just standing kind of like , Really made a good job . |
| 21 | Somehow he always managed to play off one creditor against another , claiming he was just awaiting payment for some big deal or other that was in the pipeline . |
| 22 | He was just saying goodbye to them as she drew up . |
| 23 | He was just covering earth over something he had buried . |
| 24 | ‘ He was just making conversation . ’ |