Example sentences of "was just [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I — I was just wandering around with my drink . ’ |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Because of the operation I am restricted in the physical activity I can do , so I was just messing about with music tapes after the operation when I got around to singing . |
| 3 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 4 | A slim , smart , but friendly woman was just getting out of her car and smiled at Jane . |
| 5 | He was just getting out of the car and he could just get back in it and move out with the same expertise . |
| 6 | As he helped her up , her gaze went past to him to Sabine , who was just getting out of the car to offer her assistance . |
| 7 | Charles was just getting out of his bath and was about to put on again the same clothes he had taken off beforehand , when suddenly , there at the gates were envoys bringing from Aquitaine a crown and all the royal gear , and everything needed for holy rites ! |
| 8 | I was just getting back into the driving seat when there was a shout and a figure emerged from the gully about fifty metres above me . |
| 9 | However , when we decided this morning to change the whole way of presentation , yeah , I was just getting along to that . |
| 10 | From inside the room it must have looked like he was just hopping off into empty space , say goodbye to Buck Rogers , a suicide leap over a thirty-foot drop . |
| 11 | I was just catching up on some paperwork . |
| 12 | There was nothing to reach for , no aching energy of ambition to move him ; as far as he could see , he was just kicking around in medium comfort and waiting to get old and die . |
| 13 | I was just building up to it cos it 's |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | I gave Fenella a handful of loose change for cups of tea and told her I was just popping out to ‘ see to Armstrong ’ and I 'd be back in an hour . |
| 16 | ‘ She said she was just popping out for a minute , ’ she replied . |
| 17 | The door which had opened hastily to let him through was just swinging heavily to when Harry roused himself out of his daze of doubt and consternation , and flung himself after in a burst of despairing rage . |
| 18 | I was just moving out of the way . |
| 19 | Right I was just reading here about about er er the funeral in Northern Ireland and the minister would n't let the erm flag draped coffins of two I R A go into the church with the insignia and whatever on top of the coffins there . |
| 20 | I 'd hired a team of private investigators to keep an eye on you after your house was ransacked , and I was just ringing through to them to let them know where you were . ’ |
| 21 | But I was just lazing around on beaches . ’ |
| 22 | He was just looking round for some quiet corner to put the case when faintly above the noise in the room he heard the doorbell ring . |
| 23 | For another two and a half years I survived the mosquitoes and grew to love the people and was just looking forward to my first home leave when a letter from the Superior General appointed me to Vocations Director in the South of England ! |
| 24 | He was just looking down on her face , one hand smoothing the hair from her cheek . |
| 25 | If , like me , you thought ‘ Green Mind ’ sounded like J was just bollocking about in his pa 's basement up to not too much of anything , rejoice ! |
| 26 | ‘ After that I was just lying down in a hospital bed . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We ran out and he was just lying there on the ground . |
| 28 | He was just lying there with doctors and nurses round him , ’ he said . |
| 29 | It kept promising it was going to explode , and then one morning I came out of the house it was just lying there like a dinosaur hulk . ’ |
| 30 | No it was just going on about remember , remember that just after climaxing |