Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have just [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ .
2 The Town Clerk 's just pointed out that their tape recorder 's run out and wondered if you would go back to the start and work through all that again .
3 ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of .
4 I du n no , hold on , I think the record button 's just come off .
5 The two-seater Chipmunk aircraft had just taken off when it unexpectedly veered sharpley back towards the runway .
6 A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale .
7 The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown .
8 There is draft er , legislation , a draft circular has just come out , which makes quite clear beyond any doubt that we are required to treat the inspection of our facilities exactly the same way as the independent sector .
9 And erm I 've found out in , in our area in South Bank , the local hardware shop has just shut down .
10 And I heard one woman in the audience say , ‘ Look , her hair pins have just fallen out . ’
11 Company squad-car 's just rolled up . ’
12 The article said the chairman of TV London had just taken up residence in the castle .
13 The street lights had just come on , a little premature , and where they stood close to any of the orphan-like trees their electric brightness was captured in the mesh of dusty leaves , giving the street an elegance it had otherwise long since lost .
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