Example sentences of "was [v-ing] just [art] " in BNC.

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1 He was using just a small group — a sax player , a keyboard player , bass and drums , as I recall — and he was really wailing .
2 All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track .
3 Already Northern Ireland was becoming just a pretty landscape , a backdrop to the pain behind her eyes .
4 ‘ At the same time , in the back of my mind , there was the thought that , actually , I had a distant connection who was doing just the same thing . ’
5 The very notion , now that she was sitting just a matter of inches away from him , was ludicrous .
6 He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves .
7 But she could n't think straight while Julius was standing just a couple of feet away !
8 She jumped violently , swinging round , glad of the darkness that hid the shock in her eyes when she saw that Terry Lewis had followed her and was standing just a few feet away .
9 That was the time when Freud was exploring just the id .
10 Such a crisis happened in the stormy weather of a particularly difficult week in February , when everyone was feeling just a little touchy .
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