Example sentences of "just [v-ing] in [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ He 's just looking in on them . |
2 | One writer described couples entering and leaving church in the 1870s as ‘ cool and businesslike , as though having paid the deposit on the purchase of a donkey or a handsome barrow , they were just going in with their witnesses to settle the bargain ’ . |
3 | Ah well , in tomorrow like but I 'm just going in till twenty past nine and then sign my name off and going home . |
4 | So you would feel equally at home there with a group of friends on a night out or just popping in for a quiet drink and a chat . |
5 | Well erm , at half past six Paula he 'll be in the middle of his tea , you 've got to give the guy a chance to turn round try to suit you , but think of him , he 's just getting in from work and boom |
6 | This must be him just coming in through the side door . |
7 | Beyond them , just coming in through the door , she saw Pascoe . |
8 | You never know what 's just coming in through the door . ’ |
9 | Just coming in through the door at that very minute was Detective-Constable Edwards . |
10 | You 're just on the approaches to Jerusalem , you 're just coming in to Jerusalem right ? |
11 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
12 | Look — there she is , just coming in from the garden . ’ |
13 | That time we 're just coming in from a nightclub . |
14 | The goods shed at the back , and the train just coming in from Lincoln there . |
15 | The end point can vary between the parent just giving in for a peaceful life , the whole event fizzling out with the child still not having done what was asked or the parent having smacked the child and walked away . |
16 | This is just giving in to your Ego , which loves to play ‘ Ai n't I awful ! ’ |
17 | He 'd said his prayers and celebrated Mass , Benedicta just slipping in at the door and kneeling next to the baptismal font instead of coming further up the nave . |
18 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |