Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] just " in BNC.

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1 And they were not mourning just a businessman , political figure and brother mason .
2 The flames were already flickering just beneath the surface , waiting to be fanned into fierce , burning life .
3 They were always lying just below the surface of their life .
4 In condemning these bad films the reviewers were also revealing just how much the movie industry had learnt .
5 Andy Kyle and Dr. Stephen Bonnard were modestly waiting just behind it .
6 We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag .
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