Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] just been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kid gets on his bicycle ; for a few moments he wears the expression of someone who had just been made aware of his own mortality . |
| 2 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 3 | From the bunk below him Rod Porter grunted and turned over , as if to resume the peaceful sleep from which he 'd just been disturbed . |
| 4 | When asked what the problem was , her friends told me she had just been assigned to teach in a distant , rural middle school . |
| 5 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
| 6 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 7 | Blanche absorbed the implication of what she had just been told : Mills had not betrayed Zbigniew Nowak and so could not have been murdered because of it . |
| 8 | His superior was baffled , unsure of the validity and import of what he had just been told . |