Example sentences of "was [verb] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | America , having no domestic jet development programme to match either of these two aircraft , was struggling just to keep up with large French and British orders of existing fighters and light bombers let alone worry about ‘ jets ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I felt like I was escaping just to get in , ’ he reflected after his taxi failed to turn up and he got a lift from a receptionist at his hotel . |
| 3 | Bob Bennett was a typical Cockney with a dry sense of humour , who had volunteered for anything that was going just to get away from the parade-ground atmosphere of the Grenadier Guards . |
| 4 | It did n't matter then how much work there was to do just give a yelp |
| 5 | Erm well I 'm obviously going on yeah , let's just I was saying just dump it all . |
| 6 | In the yacht we sailed , a second head and shower ( a smaller compartment than the one forward ) was provided just abaft the galley . |
| 7 | You think this war was started just to inconvenience you . |
| 8 | Malpass 's eyes had misted and I was talking just to remind him I was there . |