Example sentences of "were [verb] just that " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no step up to higher things , but a system complete in itself under which poor children were to receive just that modicum of education which would enable them to become useful and content in their inevitable station as hewers of wood and drawers of water . |
| 2 | Most councils were doing just that . |
| 3 | It seemed to most onlookers that the first step to take to correct the disparity between the teams was to practise as hard as possible , especially as the West Indians were doing just that themselves ; Gower and Tony Brown , the manager , however , enforced no such ruling . |
| 4 | Around the country small groups were doing just that . |
| 5 | Franco interpreted as threatening anything that escaped his personal control , and by May 1941 he had begun to feel that Serrano and his collaborators were doing just that . |
| 6 | Fifteen minutes later they were doing just that . |