Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] just [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 somebody came to settle up bang and he was playing thinking he 'd just been wounded and in fact he 'd been shot and killed , poor chap
2 A TEENAGER and three of his pals died when he crashed the car he had just been given as a present .
3 If Albany speaks , it suggests an attempt to reassert authority he has just been trying to give away ( as Gurr proposes about as upbeat a close as leaving Denmark in Fortinbras 's control ) .
4 The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was also standing as the man behind the desk read the slip of paper he had just been handed .
5 Behind him the door of the house whose occupant he had just been interviewing had been dosed with considerable firmness .
6 Lips tight , fists clenched , eyes narrow , breath held , back straight , stomach in , chest out , shoulders back , Steven Grout stamped away from the depot he had just been fired from , away from their stupid job and those awful people .
7 In a radio broadcast on 1 October 1936 , the day he was officially invested as Head of State , Franco hinted at how he envisaged the organization of the as yet non-existent state of whose equally non-existent government he had just been made leader .
8 Over his face quivered shades of the sniggers he had just been enjoying with his mates .
9 He drank , and then began to think how he could use the information he 'd just been given .
10 Like the three kings in the story , O went home another way , feeling that in some way he had just been warned about something .
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