Example sentences of "[be] just [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
| 2 | I no longer believe that I am just writing a treatment of her life . |
| 3 | This applies whether you are just rearranging a room , thinking of buying some new items , or have just moved in and are starting from scratch . |
| 4 | Other sites are just taking a subset of the data , perhaps their own county and a few others nearby . |
| 5 | And Wright , whose misery over the weekend was compounded when he wasted a glorious chance to rescue a point for Arsenal , added : ‘ Some people are just having a go at me for the sake of it and it 's beginning to get to me . ’ |
| 6 | She said : ‘ The message is that the UK government could n't care less , they are just applying a Band-Aid to a mortal wound . ’ |
| 7 | You 're just buying a house . |
| 8 | They 're just taking a bit too much on . |
| 9 | ‘ I think they 're just taking a look around . ’ |
| 10 | We 're just taking a bag , we 'll come back for the rest when the wind 's gone down . " |
| 11 | Erm you created er your own problem by saying how long is it since you 've seen an F P representative you 're just building a barrier up again . |
| 12 | Y yes we 're just we 're just having a look at the the spellings at the moment trying to make some sense of them . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , we 're just having a slurp . ’ |
| 14 | — But we 're just married a couple of months . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're just finishing a rubber , Nicky , my sweet , we wo n't be long , ’ Louise said . |
| 16 | Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup . |
| 17 | And you 're just starting a research ? |
| 18 | Well Ray say , i i I mean it 's important that we yo you find out whether you are depressive , whether you have er ag , oh , something clinically wrong with you , whether you 're just feeling a bit down . |
| 19 | They 're just doing a kind of tour of loads and loads of houses cos they keep moving with his job . |
| 20 | But like they 're just doing a survey |
| 21 | A a as I say er i it takes a bit of getting used to when you 're just making a meal for yourself , you know what I mean you 're you 're that used to carry 'em about and picking after 'em and |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm just getting a refill . |
| 23 | I 'm not I 'm just taking a sip |
| 24 | I 'm just taking a coat outside . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm just delivering a message , darling ! |
| 26 | I 'm just stating a fact . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It was probably because he was a doctor that he could n't face the future — he knew what to expect , ’ said Rachel bitterly , then as she caught sight of her mother 's expression she said hurriedly , ‘ Oh , I 'm not making excuses for him , I 'm just stating a fact . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm just stating a fact . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're twisting the facts , making it seem as if I 'm just acting a part ! |
| 30 | Mm I 'm just I 'm just drawing a shadow do n't worry I am going to shade it all in and I 'm gon na |