Example sentences of "just [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | but what I 'm saying is , awareness now , I 'm just slagging off the awareness . |
| 2 | So , in that spirit , you can put together a library from whatever source you choose — just trolling round the many Bulletin Board Systems using a fast modem can net you gigabytes of files , and some really good stuff too . |
| 3 | Having gently and efficiently helped Luce into a loose cotton nightdress , the housekeeper was just tucking in the light counterpane when another knock heralded the doctor . |
| 4 | Colonel Lin Foh , and two bodyguards , were just stepping into the adjacent lift . |
| 5 | Indeed , the company is just drawing to the end of a five- year £150 million capital investment programme . |
| 6 | The pupils decided that they were the same in that context and were satisfied that there were only three different shapes if they did not allow fences in the middle or squares just touching at the corners . |
| 7 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 8 | After visiting the Hayward Gallery I spent a half-hour just gazing along the river line , the historic buildings sharp in the clear , cold , sunny air . |
| 9 | He had nodded , open-mouthed , and would have liked to have stayed longer , just gazing at the beauties , but Molly had hurried him away . |
| 10 | She was not the only one with the same idea , because on arriving at Clarendon Road there was quite a sizeable crowd , just gazing at the still smouldering ruin of a terrace of five houses . |
| 11 | There she was , sitting forlornly in a corner and , unlike all the other dogs , making no noise , just gazing at the floor in a philosophical way . |
| 12 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 13 | Are those the candy-floss , Mickey Mouse jobs that the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) goes on about so much , or are those people just sponging off the backs of the poll tax payers ? |
| 14 | He went , you 're just a drop-out , you 're just sponging off the government . |
| 15 | TIM BURTON , currently Hollywood 's golden boy with Batman Returns , is not just sticking to the obvious — even if there 's a vast amount of money in it . |
| 16 | So just keeping on the same sort of subject , of sex , drugs and , |
| 17 | ‘ Just checking on the claret , ’ he boomed as he came back . |
| 18 | It 's it 's funny he 's just checking under the |
| 19 | Just re Chris from Wood Frampton , just returning to the comments made by Mr , erm we are on behalf of the church commissioners promoting a new settlement proposal , immediately to the North of the M A F F Central Science Laboratory . |
| 20 | Yet was just climbing through the room on the spiral stair , bearing the last of the packing cases up to the laboratory . |
| 21 | I wish it was yesterday , I wish I was just climbing over the rocks in dear comfortable Mrs McPhee who does n't mind getting wet and lets me breathe — ’ |
| 22 | And having someone just climbing over the stile is a good idea with the signpost pointing . |
| 23 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 24 | I worried about whether they would be safe just walking down the street , the way they looked and acted . ’ |
| 25 | So ‘ men are going to get off on women anyway , just walking down the street ’ and of course magazines whose raison d'etre is the presentation of the naked or seminaked female body as a spectacle are n't contributing to this state of affairs , are they ? |
| 26 | ‘ Men are going to get off on women anyway , just walking down the street . |
| 27 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |
| 28 | I watch over my shoulder just walking to the local shops . |
| 29 | And as Old Mother Potts would n't allow men visitors , and Len did n't like dancing , it had been pretty dreary just walking about the wintry streets together . |
| 30 | Where just walking at the moment at cottage hospital now . |