Example sentences of "have just taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |
| 2 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 3 | Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf . |
| 4 | It has just taken the unusual step of calling home its ambassador to Guatemala ‘ for consultations ’ . |
| 5 | Europe 's biggest lacemaker has just taken delivery of five Textronic machines which will churn out new ‘ three-dimensional ’ lace . |
| 6 | A spokesman at the estate said yesterday : ‘ As the new earl has just taken over , we are reviewing our business policy . ’ |
| 7 | Only four results left and so far Lenny Henry has just taken a clear lead from Victoria Wood . |
| 8 | Since the formation of the BWG and the LGWG , the administrative workers and the volunteers have set up their own autonomous groups , and Disabled Action has just taken off . |
| 9 | If ‘ There has just taken place in me the mental process of remembering … ’ means nothing more than ‘ I have just remembered … ’ then to deny the mental process would mean to deny the remembering . |
| 10 | Neil Young has just taken a three-minute break between the arrival of the NME and the departure of Radio 1 's Johnny Walker . |
| 11 | This must strike a chord with anyone who has just taken possession of a modern house with a postage stamp for a plot of land . |
| 12 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 13 | Flight Lieutenant Gareth Williams MHCIMA , formerly training officer at the RAF School of Catering , Aldershot , has been promoted to Squadron Leader and has just taken over as Officer Commanding Catering Squadron , at RAF St Athan , Barry , Wales . |
| 14 | May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London . |
| 15 | At 91 years of age , has just taken up painting water colours and choir singing at a local day centre in his home town of Hull . |
| 16 | Now presumably somebody in government or Whitehall has just taken a decision to , to go for it all in one year , I do n't know why , I , I do n't suppose we 're told why , but the , the consequence of the decision is actually going to be that people in Shropshire , our clients and social services are going to pay for that decision , either through paying charges for services that they now get for nothing , or by getting less services , er , and this does n't seem to be in line with the government 's stated aim of , of targeting money where it 's most needed . |
| 17 | Finally , the man with the largest feet in Britain has just taken delivery of what are believed to be the biggest pair of shoes in the world . |
| 18 | Mr Pacey has just taken over as head of the National Criminal Intelligence Service . |
| 19 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 20 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 21 | Actually erm granddad 's honeysuckle ha has just taken but of course if the lambs are going to come and chew it |
| 22 | Er he he 'd just taken some photographs out of last year 's er annual report and put a heading up and stuck some text on it . |
| 23 | She 'd just taken it round to a local dealer to get his opinion confirmed . |
| 24 | " It 's as if I 'd just taken a photograph . " |
| 25 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 26 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 27 | I , I 'd just taken this thing |
| 28 | A friend of Ken 's had just taken his life after being given the choice of going to prison or a mental hospital . |
| 29 | ‘ He could have just taken off . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He might have just taken a walk and got lost , ’ said Pascoe without conviction . |