Example sentences of "just taken [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must strike a chord with anyone who has just taken possession of a modern house with a postage stamp for a plot of land . |
| 2 | Cash was flowing out quicker than it came in during 1930 and this led to the idea that a new racer could be built to earn the ‘ big money ’ at the National Air Races , where the winner had just taken $15,000 . |
| 3 | ‘ Our centre half had just taken part in an all-night ice skating event for charity . |
| 4 | Europe 's biggest lacemaker has just taken delivery of five Textronic machines which will churn out new ‘ three-dimensional ’ lace . |
| 5 | He 's just taken delivery of a TA200S 200-watt stereo combo , as have Andy Summers , Seal , Greg Lake and Suzanne Vega . |
| 6 | They 've just taken delivery of a whole load of high quality datarec 's , which are retailing at the standard price of just £29.99 . |
| 7 | Finally , the man with the largest feet in Britain has just taken delivery of what are believed to be the biggest pair of shoes in the world . |
| 8 | He had just taken breath to shout again when there was a muffled bang . |
| 9 | The theory of the adaptation of species had just taken seed . |
| 10 | ‘ Fuck off and leave you alone ! ’ echoed Quigley , as if I had just taken pi to sixteen decimal places off the top of my head . |
| 11 | He announced his credo unashamedly in his first editorial : ‘ We believe we are filling a publishing need only slightly less important than the one just taken care of by the Kinsey Report . ’ |
| 12 | If ‘ There has just taken place in me the mental process of remembering … ’ means nothing more than ‘ I have just remembered … ’ then to deny the mental process would mean to deny the remembering . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , we certainly ca n't undo what 's just taken place between us , can we ? ’ |
| 14 | Referring to the meeting which had just taken place in Dublin , Sir Patrick addressed the House of Commons thus : |
| 15 | And the transformation has not just taken place underground . |
| 16 | At last , pulling herself together , she went to give Joanna and Helen a watered-down version of the scene that had just taken place — watered-down because , for some subconscious reason , she felt that Dawn 's story was not quite believable . |
| 17 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |