Example sentences of "just [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I 'm quite happy I 'm just building up with Rob with the I A P's |
| 2 | I was just building up to it cos it 's |
| 3 | I was just catching up on some paperwork . |
| 4 | It was very hard for the Brownies to stay still and quiet on the ground , just gazing up into space , especially when every now and again the circling plane came between them and the sun and cast a strange , dark shadow over them . |
| 5 | There was a woman standing at one of the second-storey windows when Gentle reached the intersection , just gazing out at the street . |
| 6 | This is what your teachers will try to tell you is true but they are just sucking up to you . |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 9 | Her fury with the diabolical man nearly went into orbit , though , when , once more pinning his dark-eyed look on her , he drawled , ‘ Just hanging on to him while he 's good for the rent , is that it ? ’ and , having made up his mind to that , seemed not to require an answer . |
| 10 | She said the immense pressure she had been under took its toll and at times she was so emotionally and physically exhausted she was ‘ just hanging on by my fingernails ’ . |
| 11 | But he said : ‘ We are a clear second in the table — and not just hanging on by goal difference . |
| 12 | I was talking to this other lad across the road — we were due to go off duty at two and we were just hanging about before making our way down to the station — there was no relief for us on that shift . |
| 13 | I spent a lot of time listening to records and just hanging out with friends . |
| 14 | A large black car was just driving up to the airport building . |
| 15 | Erm , well what your mum and dad said to me is that he gets very worried , het up , really tensed about doing things , that 's going , you know , things that are gon na happen , like just driving down to a different place , er and he get 's himse himself so het up , so worried , he makes himself ill , I think that 's what 's happened |
| 16 | Just mopping up after her . |
| 17 | However , the increase in SSA enrolments was 24 per cent , only just keeping up with population growth , whereas in the final matriculation year ( Standard Ten ) , the increase was 327 per cent . |
| 18 | That summer , Tess and Clare unconsciously studied each other , balanced on the edge of a passion , yet just keeping out of it . |
| 19 | In fact she was just checking up on room service , wondering if it was too late to order a plain omelette and salad in her room . |
| 20 | He says over the last five years it 's got far more popular … it 's a sport which is developing … it 's just opening up as a competitve sport … |
| 21 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 22 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | I 'm just groping around like the rest . |
| 25 | I was just walking around with a huge grin on my face . |
| 26 | I decided to abandon my earlier plan of just walking around until dawn and instead to try and find somewhere where I could get some sleep . |
| 27 | No , just walking out of English . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall . |
| 30 | I could see the lens just swimming around in there . |