Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] have just be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 2 | Leggy Linda Lusardi has just been told that her new job involves moving in with seven adoring men . |
| 3 | Old Mr David Hughes has just been told by his doctors that he 'll have to retire , and the younger members of the family would prefer to sell out and start up on their own . |
| 4 | At Hanworth he met a girl named Hanna Reitsch.She had just been towed across the English Channel in a glider . |
| 5 | Alan Smith had just been appointed editor and was about to change the whole face of the paper , ditching those who revered Cilla as the greatest swinger on the block . |
| 6 | The price of oil was tumbling again , one of his most reliable brokers on Wall Street had just been arrested for insider dealing , the acquisition of a highly prestigious London hotel had been held up by a query as to who actually owned it and , back home , one of his sisters had just committed suicide , causing a tremor of scandal throughout the country . |
| 7 | Second was the husband of Mrs Chapple ; Mrs Chapple had just been admitted to hospital and seemed unlikely to return home : |
| 8 | I 've was just I heard erm how Lord Jonathan has just been become become a pier or something . |
| 9 | Keith Fuller has just been picked by the News of the World from 1,000 entries as THE British answer to the new President . |
| 10 | Twenty three year old John Kitchin had just been remanded in custody on a burglary charge . |
| 11 | Twenty three year old John Kitchin had just been remanded in custody on a burglary charge . |