Example sentences of "been [verb] just [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By his early teens , he had been driving just such a cart ; clopping down the Dorset lanes , in the early summer sun … |
| 2 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 3 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 4 | SCO 's development partner DEC will have to soldier on alone , if it has not been doing just that for some time ( UX No 364 ) , if it intends to put OSF/1-for-ACE on its MIPS R4000 machines . |
| 5 | So much is made these days of the high-profile young dance companies who are ‘ trying to find their own vocabularies of movement ’ , that it is all too easy to forget those who have been doing just that , very quietly , for a long time . |
| 6 | She had known why Mr Evans had sent Hepzibah biscuits ; had known that he wanted her to spy , to keep her eyes open , and it seemed that without meaning to she had been doing just that ! |
| 7 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 8 | When such researchers have been doing just this for over 100 years , is it not sensible to take note of what they are saying ? |
| 9 | She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night . |