Example sentences of "[verb] that [pers pn] [verb] just been " in BNC.
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1 | He went on : ‘ They are normally engaged in planning non-emergency journeys but since there have not been any it was felt that they have just been sitting around socialising when others are working long hours . |
2 | ‘ Not too good , I 've heard , ’ said Greg , not adding that he had just been grilling the doctor who signed her second husband 's death certificate . |
3 | ‘ Why ? ’ she demanded , finally deciding that she 'd just been insulted . |
4 | That 's right they 're all with me , yeah that 's right because you know that you 've just been there or you 're going to be there yourself . |
5 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |
6 | To believe that you have just been incredibly stupid . |
7 | But David Stevenson , chief executive of Edinburgh Woollen Mills and former international pole-vaulter , would have you believe that he has just been rather lucky . |
8 | Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first . |
9 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |
10 | One day a child came home from Sunday School declaring that he had just been hearing about how Moses crossed the Red Sea with tanks and Bailey bridges . |