Example sentences of "just [v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 're just hanging there waiting to presumably do something quite nasty . |
| 2 | They 've gone now and it 's nice and peaceful just lying here doing nothing . |
| 3 | He was just lying there watching telly and reading the paper and |
| 4 | I 'm just lying there eating it . |
| 5 | For one thing , it was boring , just lying there doing nothing . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm just standing here listening , ’ said Joe . |
| 7 | Sorry , we 're just standing here talking ! |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't fancy just standing there yelling into the void . ’ |
| 9 | He was like the bloke who you saw right through the film overseeing the whole operation , just standing there sticking little pins into a map . |
| 10 | The disadvantage of that was you could n't have somebody in with the class for five or six lessons just standing there pretending to film . |
| 11 | She was just standing there beaming , holding this big ball of fluff in her arms . |
| 12 | He came to her , taking her hands and drawing her to her feet , just standing there looking down at her as she found herself quite incapable of resisting . |
| 13 | We were just standing there looking over the the the |
| 14 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 15 | I thought she was just standing there twisting the neck of this duck . |
| 16 | Why are they just standing there doing nothing ? ’ |
| 17 | I expected Father to chase me , but when I reached the corner and looked back he was just standing there talking to the thin man . |
| 18 | Use the formula then , we 're just sitting here wasting time . |
| 19 | I was just sitting here wondering why men do n't have this image problem ? |
| 20 | Oh I 'm just sitting here having had a long , well erm I I 've just had a , a chat with Gillian who erm rang me up and we were on the phone for about half an hour I suppose , she 's some lucky girl ! |
| 21 | Marcus and the woman were just sitting there grinning at each other and talking so I went to track Shelly down . |
| 22 | I 'm just sitting there thinking your dog 's I used to hate your dog , man . |
| 23 | I 'm just sitting there taping . |
| 24 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |
| 25 | And I looked behind , and he was just sitting there staring like that . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , there it is — that tempting little basket of bread , often very tasty bread , that comes with the cover charge , just sitting there waiting to be picked at . |
| 27 | It 's the normal state of things , just sitting there doing nothing . |
| 28 | Erm so the , if you 're just sitting there doing nothing , they 're balanced . |
| 29 | Anyone who 's vigilant knows what 's going on and they 're aware of what 's happening , so again it , it shows that we must do something as they said on that motorway , the thing to do when you feel yourself going into drow drowsiness is , is stop the car perhaps , get out and have a walk round , do something , I know I , er in the past when I 've felt myself going off to sleep in those situations , I 've been pinching myself and , and really making yourself do something rather than just sitting there doing nothing , cos that 's the way we just go off and get lowered into sleep and our lives are involved in this , we 've read and heard about people that have gone to sleep on motorways have n't they ? |