Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] just " in BNC.
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1 | The flames were already flickering just beneath the surface , waiting to be fanned into fierce , burning life . |
2 | They were always lying just below the surface of their life . |
3 | In condemning these bad films the reviewers were also revealing just how much the movie industry had learnt . |
4 | Andy Kyle and Dr. Stephen Bonnard were modestly waiting just behind it . |
5 | 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 . |