Example sentences of "and just [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First they send you all round the town and then you get processed into a system with thousands of other people and it does n't feel at all like driving to a town on the coast and just getting on a boat . |
| 2 | This is not an amalgamation for its own sake , it is not an amalgamation to manage a continuing and more comfortable decline , it 's not bolting together two super unions into one mega union and just hoping for the best . |
| 3 | But when she thought about the future , about staying at home , then marrying Georg and just moving over the ridge , and starting there and then to have babies and spend every day in the dairy the way her mother did , a terrible sense of panic overtook her . |
| 4 | Bob Monkhouse — already established as a leading comedy writer and just moving into performing — playing the poor wretch called up on his wedding day and Shirley Eaton as the NAAFI girl who would come back for just one more ‘ Carry On ’ . |
| 5 | For some years in the public sector and just beginning in the university sector , we see academics willing to have their teaching activities subjected to the face-to-face evaluation and commentaries of their peers . |
| 6 | Hebbert was leafing through Hard Rock to re-live Great/Bow combination and just glancing at the Vember chapter , which was the nearest the book got to Curving Crack . |
| 7 | He seemed to take pleasure in the simplest things , like touring the delicatessens in search of a special cheese , or taking the water bus across the lake and just mingling with the tourists . |
| 8 | I remember standing at the back of the club and just leaning against the wall and watching him . |
| 9 | ‘ Being so happy with him … and just thinking about him … over these past few months , should have told me . |
| 10 | I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with . |
| 11 | O K. It seems to me that and just looking at human nature something is that right ? |
| 12 | It could be argued that predicting no change is a more reliable strategy than predicting change and just guessing at what it might be . |
| 13 | I mean , it looked as if you were looking at my chest , and just staring at my chest . |
| 14 | Heat the oil in a large pan over a moderate heat , add the onion and garlic and cook , covered , until well softened and just starting to brown . |
| 15 | It 's a great power to be very physical , to be able to storm through life with swaying shoulders , instead of creeping and just relying on your thesaurus . |
| 16 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 17 | If you are female , more than two stones overweight , and just embarking on a weight-loss programme — as opposed to switching from another slimming diet on which you have already lost some of your surplus weight . |
| 18 | At the Dixie Dude , I spent my time between riding in the hills and just sitting on the porch doing nothing . |
| 19 | ‘ How can you respect bashing in a bolt and just waiting for a robot to take over your job ? |
| 20 | It was much more the sheer vitality and range of committed ability , lay and clerical , present in the Church at that time and just waiting for a new lead . |
| 21 | And , I mean you can create a dance floor by the tables and just lighting round it . |
| 22 | The fingerboard is wide and again lends itself well to rock styles , although if you 're into slinging guitars around your knees and just going for the chords there 's plenty of meat to get hold of . |
| 23 | I remember driving down to Leith on that Friday night , and just going for a walk and thinking that the next time the sun came up I would be playing at Murrayfield . |
| 24 | But they will only do this , it turns out , if you 're 19 and just going to college . |
| 25 | Er and and just going through my mind at the moment |
| 26 | And he 's he 's turned over this and just gon na slap one on me and I 've turned my head and gone like that and he 's fucking caught me right on the fucking lips ! |
| 27 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
| 28 | I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five . |
| 29 | Sometimes you 're oblivious to the crowd and just concentrating on what you 're doing . ’ |
| 30 | It 's really good for sitting down with a meal and just forgetting about work . |