Example sentences of "[pron] have just be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |
| 2 | That 's a sprinter 's example , but it 's the same for any athletic performance , as I 've just been reminded by watching the astonishing improvement of Ray Davidson in these past few years . |
| 3 | I am not , I have just been duped by a clever story-telling girl ’ — Jean Wallace , who runs the Blackpool hotel where runaway schoolgirl Nicola Rogers , 13 , stayed . |
| 4 | Robert Burke , a Hartley regular , is Bill McCabe , a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl . |
| 5 | ( Emma looking in a mirror , indoors , in the evening ; she has just been seduced by Rodolphe ) ‘ Her eyes had never been so large , so black , nor contained such depth . ’ |
| 6 | He had no income when he married The Maid of Bath , the singer Miss Linley , but he used the £3,000 she had just been given by a disappointed but grateful , rich admirer , to buy a grand house in London 's fashionable Portman Square , and furnish it lavishly . |
| 7 | She had just been shaken by a ‘ terrible adventure ’ . |
| 8 | After 87 minutes Luton 's woe was complete as Sharp headed in a cross from Bernard , who had just been denied by another splendid stop from Chamberlain . |
| 9 | 30th March 1808 ‘ saw a woman on Blackfriar 's Bridge who had just been killed by a horse which had run away — the horse was stopped just about half way between that market and the bridge , drank tea and supped with Mr. Hills — Mr. Pyne was there — met Mr. Reinagle ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ It could be the killer was somebody who had just been passing by the apartment block . ’ |
| 11 | you 're still interested in , I do n't know whether you 're still interested in speaking but erm , we 've just been approached by the A N C , they 're pulling everybody back , there 's , everybody 's going home . |
| 12 | We have just been informed by Mr R. Warner of Photomatic Limited that the business ceased in August 1991 , but he has made arrangements with another company to carry on the photo-printing of Litho copies . |
| 13 | I 'm not sure whether the change in areas was the reason for the last flurry or whether they had just been triggered by instinct and gone on the feed . |
| 14 | He has just been pulverized by a being from the other side of the galaxy and what does he do ? |
| 15 | It had just been wiped by a sullen black woman in a nylon overall , from whom the sergeant tried in vain to extract a smile , and the police officers sat back to allow it to dry before resting their elbows on the surface . |
| 16 | Ukraine appointed Rear-Adml Boris Kozhin , previously commander of the Crimean naval base , as head of all naval forces in the republic , even though he had just been sacked by Adml Igor Kasatonov , the CIS 's Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , for ‘ inflaming national strife ’ . |
| 17 | What he fails to mention is that he 's just been fined by his fun loving Durham County Cricket Club colleagues for turning up unshaven . |