Example sentences of "just [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a woman standing at one of the second-storey windows when Gentle reached the intersection , just gazing out at the street . |
| 2 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 3 | A large black car was just driving up to the airport building . |
| 4 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |
| 5 | So I said I know what he 's like , comes back and he turns up he says we 're just off now , I said oh you 've come back then I thought you were a bit rude just storming out of the funeral and not saying cheerio to everyone , he said I 've been insulted long enough by your family , I would n't be , I was n't prepared to be insulted any more |
| 6 | I 'm just groping around like the rest . |
| 7 | I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back . |
| 8 | He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall . |
| 9 | Just filling out to the half , it looked strangely unfinished . |
| 10 | Calm and steady as a rock , the Pakistan captain just waiting here for the ball to come … ’ |
| 11 | I mean really useful , not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part . ’ |
| 12 | She was just turning away from the pantry door when Jenny entered the kitchen . |
| 13 | Just turning briefly to the issue of affordable housing , you 'll see from my H One submissions the City Council has a target , er which is in the the York area housing strategy , which is currently with the D O E for its consideration , of something like a hundred and fifty dwellings a year , giving over the fifteen year period a two thousand two hundred target , how we will go about achieving that is primarily , where it 's possible using land we already own , or is in ownership of housing associations , and taking into account the the seven dwellings outside the current city boundary , we believe in total they will contribute some fifteen hundred dwellings towards that two thousand two hundred target , this will leave clearly a significant shortfall , and it will therefore be necessary to seek to negotiate , if I can use the terms of P B G 3 erm with house builders as sites come forward in in the local during the local plan period . |
| 14 | Brother Winfrid , big and young and wholesome , was leaning on his spade at the edge of the vegetable patch beyond , and gazing after a diminutive figure that was just scuttling away round the corner of the box hedge towards the great court . |
| 15 | ‘ We ran out and he was just lying there on the ground . |
| 16 | I liked just lying there after the antenatal classes , holding my lump and feeling the baby move gently . |
| 17 | Yes , but On the last comment that er Chris made er bringing us and the letter to county about the the failure of the meeting on the twenty second cos we feel that they are just lying down to the situation and not pursuing a pursuing the D A P about whatsoever and erm we are , certainly in John 's letter probably get it signed tonight complaining and asking for a a meeting as soon as possible because we feel that that they ought to be pursuing the question of these two sites , they 're dragging their feet ! |
| 18 | I think all that stuff is just lying down in the face of the mass media . |
| 19 | A grey car , immaculately clean , was just pulling up at the gate and a big man in a plain grey suit was getting out to open it . |
| 20 | So we dashed back to the steamer which was just pulling out from the bank — you two were jolly glad to see us . |
| 21 | But I saw , I went into town yesterday , have n't been into town and I saw er , I 'm just going up past the job centre I had to go to council about me money and I thought well I suppose I ought to make an effort and look in the job centre cos I , I ai n't done because I 've been in catering all the while |
| 22 | Tractor development is n't just going on in the west either . |
| 23 | I heard it certainly I heard it just going on in the car . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm just going over to the Hospitality Unit . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're just going through to the hall , ’ said Dominic . |
| 26 | She was just going out of the door . |
| 27 | As long as you have n't got one yet , that 's alright I 'll be back , I 'm just going out to the bank . |
| 28 | I found in Northumberland , the worst bit was it was just going out in the cold to the shower . |
| 29 | So erm I was feeling a bit edgy about this when we were in the pub after the concert cos I thought maybe he 's reading things into it and I , you know , I was just going along for the music . |
| 30 | Just going back to the intestacy thing you started with . |