Example sentences of "just [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 're just re-distributing the rubbish . ’ |
| 2 | I just like to start off by saying and just reminding the council well in particular Mr in light of what he said that he does n't understand what Mr is on about , well he 's never understood the issue of the merger in Highfields . |
| 3 | ‘ If it was just defying the village I would n't think twice . |
| 4 | And erm she 's just cooking the meal and she went upstairs went into her son 's bedroom , got his belt and hung herself and her children coming back from school and find that . |
| 5 | And na I 'm just cooking the dinner darling and th then we 'll see to you . |
| 6 | passive , listening means just allowing the language to flow over you , absorbing the feel of it . |
| 7 | Nurses can help , within the constraints of the type of chairs provided , by ‘ matching ’ the chair to the patient , not just helping the patient to any chair . |
| 8 | The sinking sun was just catching the gilding on the green dome of the buildings behind St Wenceslas . |
| 9 | The sun was just catching the summit of the opposite hillside , making a corona of light over the towering cypresses . |
| 10 | She contemplated this idea for some time , steadily laying on a fresh film of white to strengthen the white already there , over her head , one knuckle just touching the ceiling to steady her . |
| 11 | The wasp , whose behaviour appears eccentric but intelligent , invariably leaves the cricket she has caught lying on its back , its antennae just touching the tunnel entrance , while she inspects her burrow . |
| 12 | I recall summer commenced on 1 May in Newcastle for our ‘ shirt sleeve order ’ ; meanwhile at the other end of the Northumbrian body , para. 32 of the order commands that ‘ trousers will be worn with the bottoms of the trouser legs , at the front , just touching the instep ’ . |
| 13 | She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop . |
| 14 | The first rays of the sun are just touching the summit of the Mountain of God . |
| 15 | Her mind swung away from her brother and she told herself that she could n't see herself spending her life with someone whose toes were just touching the ground ; her nature demanded stability . |
| 16 | ‘ Across the path , ’ she said firmly , ‘ with his feet just touching the grass on the landward side , and his head and shoulders in the river . |
| 17 | He was just completing the operation , relieved that no one had commented on his obvious injury , when Mary Ann said : |
| 18 | Doctor Anderson was busy in Casualty , just completing the suturing of a six-inch gash in the arm of a policeman , when the bleeper in the top pocket of the white clinical coat emitted a plaintive call . |
| 19 | Setting up a task involves more than just typing the job in a box and putting it onto your timescale . |
| 20 | ‘ The view is that the middle tier will have to merge , and we are only just seeing the beginning of this , ’ Michael Jenkin , Glanville 's managing director , told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 21 | ‘ Just admirin' the view . ’ |
| 22 | Another teacher told me , after attending in-service courses , that while the approach offers an exciting avenue to explore which pupils find rewarding and even mind- blowing , and many of the exercises are valuable as a means of self-awareness , she felt that pupils were being steered towards abandoning the mind as a means of knowing and just accepting the subjectivity of values which do not have to be justified . |
| 23 | Now again I 'm treating it carefully I 'm not just sticking the bunsen underneath and blasting away at it . |
| 24 | However , given suitable training simple jobs can be accomplished in remarkably short order indeed and , from there on , just using the system is often training enough . |
| 25 | Until you 've tried , just using the phone or getting bread and baked beans in a language you can not speak , can be quite a challenge . |
| 26 | If you are using an extended keyboard there are alternative methods to just using the mouse to select the area . |
| 27 | This book is geared more to those parents who take a major part of the responsibility for the games and are just using the entertainer to bring an additional dimension to the party . |
| 28 | She was just using the fact that I was desperate to hold me up for an outrageously high fee . |
| 29 | White friends that I 've got , their mums argued at first , but now they 're just bringing the baby up as their own . |
| 30 | I thought you were just bringing the bridge . |