Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [pron] have just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , our press office tell me that we have just had a call from ten Downing Street , who want a copy of this speech . |
| 2 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 3 | You 're bigger than me , you 're stronger than me and you 've just proved you 're more violent than me . |
| 4 | ‘ What you and I have just had … what we have just experienced … well , I can tell you that it is something very special indeed . |
| 5 | So I would say , Have a go but leave it till last , when you when you 've done everything else and maybe you when you 've just checked through to see if the others are okay . |
| 6 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 7 | She 'd been waiting outside his office for the best part of three hours when his secretary came to tell her that he 'd just phoned in . |
| 8 | And the poser 's dead embarrassed because this other boy knows him and he 's just spotted him trying to get off with a girl in a shop , not his sort of style at all , and he blushes all over , scarlet , even his ears , I noticed the ears . |
| 9 | And on other hand it 's probably been there , you 've bathed him and it 's just left it sore . |
| 10 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 11 | Why are you wiping it if you 've just put it on ? |
| 12 | And I say that because from time to time I 've had lessons completely interrupted by kids taking the ball and running with it and I 've just sat there , it 's been brilliant ! |
| 13 | and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period . |
| 14 | I could n't believe it when I saw it cos we had just cemented the ill-fated Admiral deal . |
| 15 | Erm you know it cos you 've just told me the |
| 16 | ( I must tell here the story of a charming American lady who approached me when I had just given a talk on regression therapy . |
| 17 | Before I put her on the plane for London I told her everything was over between us and I 've just reiterated that . |