Example sentences of "were [v-ing] just [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were struggling just afterwards , as fly-half Paul Roblin put Park into the lead with a drop goal . |
| 2 | ‘ The outer ring — where the beams were landing just now ? |
| 3 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 4 | This was where things were happening just now . |
| 5 | The Liberal Democrats were averaging just under 19 per cent — a fall of about four per cent on the level of the Liberal-SDP Alliance in 1987 . |
| 6 | I went along to Brigade H.Q The Officers and other ranks were looking just as knackered as the rest of us out in the orchard . |
| 7 | Yes , they were parking just now . |
| 8 | Now you were saying just then that erm parts of the were different than the other parts . |
| 9 | The we 're coming closer on the er figures for the er staff turnover and I believe that the four percent , which is easily achievable , on the thirty first of December nineteen ninety two the turnover savings were running just below four percent , alright we just cut some of the post out of today 's budget but I still think if we give the wrong messages to the officers er we 're in danger of spending money that we do n't need to . |
| 10 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |
| 11 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |
| 12 | But you had a way of going straight to the two ninety in one go , do you remember what that was ? you 'd worked on it yourself , you you were doing just nicely . |
| 13 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 14 | The front cover says , how would you feel if you were working just as hard today as ten years ago , but earning a third less ? |