Example sentences of "and they [was/were] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked hastily from him and into the store-room , and he followed her , and they were just about to confront each other again when the back door leading into the yard opened and there , revealed in the gaslight , was Jessie . |
| 2 | We did a John Peel radio session a while ago and me and Debbie both used these really early seventies Thin Lizzy amps and they were just the best . |
| 3 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |
| 4 | For a minute longer father and son stood watching as the boat was rowed almost noiselessly out to sea ; and they were just about to return and make their way up the passage to the house when the sound of falling stones broke the silence of the night . |
| 5 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 6 | There are tigers there , and there 's leopards and things called sloth bears , a sort of bear , but they 're actually quite rare so er we did n't see any of those , apart from the rhinos , we went very very quietly crawled under the undergrowth and we saw them in a water hole and they were just bathing there . |
| 7 | ‘ Up until then I 'd been using gas and air and they were just about to give me some pethidine when all this serious discussion began . |
| 8 | I remember myself , one time we had we had two grand fields and it were They were almost ripe when it came an awful time of rain , and they were just a sort of flattened . |
| 9 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 10 | And they were just as necessary to Akhenaten — possibly more so . ’ |
| 11 | And of course , they had seasoned by then and they were just like matches going , aye . |
| 12 | ‘ We were trying to play rugby and they were just trying to spoil . ’ |
| 13 | Could n't care less and they were just there until their time for retirement was . |
| 14 | And they were just coming round in the summer . |
| 15 | There was not enough action and they were just too predictable , that they simply did not scare me but surely the point of a horror book is to scare you ? |
| 16 | So then his Scott 's mum and Noel 's mum met in town and they were just talking and Scott 's mum it 's dis , God it 's disgusting is n't it that lad given all them little lads love bites ! |
| 17 | where he 'd be , and they were just wheeling him down , him crying |
| 18 | And they were just worried that if they did n't join in , they were n't part of the club then er |
| 19 | Japanese erm , boy and girl as well , and they were just adorable , just so good , such lovely looking children Japanese |