Example sentences of "[pers pn] have just [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 2 | Clouds were moving across the far north-west of the landscape as I got to the cave , and I 'd just reached the mouth when the first drops of rain spattered on the stones at my feet . |
| 3 | Probably , I do n't know actually it 's really weird it keeps going it went once and I was playing hockey , it was really embarrassing I 'd just played the ball |
| 4 | When I had just erected the tent , Paddy laid aside his empty plate , strolled over , opened a locker and , with an expression of humorous disgust , peered inside and said , ‘ What d' you keep in there ? |
| 5 | ‘ I had just reached the age where such things were becoming of interest to me , and it was n't too long after the Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth when my sister and I had collected as many photos as we could lay our hands on . ’ |
| 6 | I had just left the shelter of my brolly as a pout started to rattle my rod tip when a 5 oz sinker ripped a hole through my brolly . |
| 7 | Madam Deputy Speaker , erm there 'll be no need for any pruning from the chair because I had just mentioned the word banks at the very point that you madam speaker , got up and I can assure that er pruning would not be in order . |
| 8 | oh , I 've just seen the word David , I have just seen the word David |
| 9 | Erm what it is we 're a press agency working for the national papers and about eighteen months ago we did Em Emma 's story for the Sunday People erm and now I 've just seen the Evening Mail today erm and I 've got , you know the how she 's grown nine inches in the past eighteen months , er and just thought the story might er might take another outing and I just wondered if it was possible f for you to help us contact her er her mother at all ? |
| 10 | But I 've just reached the door when his escorts do it for me in the corridor . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've just reached the moment when Susanna is getting into the bath — could n't you have chosen another time to visit ? |
| 12 | Oh I 've just sent the fax to for a hundred pairs . |
| 13 | ‘ Louise , dear , I 've just noticed the time . |
| 14 | I 've just answered the question , okay . |
| 15 | Cos it really has been extremely well managed , extremely well run , er not by me I 've just received the ballot papers . |
| 16 | I 've just received the fixture list from Elland Rd ( yellow card this year ) . |
| 17 | Yeah , I 've just made the tea . |
| 18 | I 've got the heating on , the water on , I 've just turned the fire up |
| 19 | I 've just broken the record for writing more books than any English author has ever done . |
| 20 | I 've just given the whole of life a miss for nearly a year , all because of bloody Adrian . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've just given the barman his own show on the telly , ’ he explained , handing them around . |
| 22 | I 've just hoovered the bathroom and the bedroom |
| 23 | I 've just put the kettle on . |
| 24 | I 've just put the kettle on |
| 25 | I 've just put the fiver in the bottle neck and I 'm trying to get it to unfurl so it wo n't drop all the way down , when she groans . |
| 26 | I 've just put the heating on . |
| 27 | Yes , I 've just remembered the point I was going to make erm I 've certainly felt from Frankie Rickford 's article that there was this myth , adults have to get it right , that we have to know the answers . |
| 28 | I 've just mentioned the taunt that drives Sonya to prostitution . |
| 29 | I 've just snapped the screwdriver ! |
| 30 | Son : I 've just got the bill for the car repairs . |