Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] [vb past] just been " 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 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 .
3 His superior was baffled , unsure of the validity and import of what he had just been told .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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