Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] have just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked Hana 's mother well enough but she had just refused to learn any English at all , and every visit was a strain . |
| 2 | Rather less because we 've just taken some money out of the budget . |
| 3 | Only because I 've just had my appraisal . |
| 4 | ‘ Especially since I 've just had influenza , arthritis , pneumonia and eczema ! ’ |
| 5 | A book about voodoo in Haiti written in the 1930s might seem an unlikely candidate for an NI Classic — especially since it has just gone out of print . |
| 6 | Especially since you 'd just asked me about investing in your business … ’ |
| 7 | She longed to say it to his face , but somehow she could n't quite bring herself to do so , especially as they had just agreed to try to bring about a better working relationship . |
| 8 | So I said well it 's only when you 've just had a baby like , you know , like cows . |
| 9 | I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't have to defend myself to you , or explain myself , especially when you 've just said that the truth is irrelevant ! ’ |
| 11 | It 's just that I 've just got too many at , it can only be done a week before |
| 12 | We 've just as I 've just said , we 've just finished reorganising our department . |
| 13 | sor he said I 'm sorry he 's going just when I 've just broke him in . |
| 14 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 15 | The time is now 7.30 p.m. and I have just finished a very good meal of my favourite steak and kidney out of , of course , the self-heating tin . |
| 16 | I 'm not like overly fat or anything , I 'm the right weight for what I 'm , for my height like but I 've just got a pot belly |
| 17 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 18 | I taxed him about it once when he 'd just dinged the rear corner of a new Porsche . |
| 19 | I did water-colours mostly but I 'd just started painting in oils and felt I had quite a talent for it , but they were n't very encouraging … |
| 20 | I had two when I first came here , but erm , one came as a stray but this one I 've got is a lovely little er ginger and white one he 's , he 's about somewhere but he 's just gone out I should imagine been on the si sitting on the sideboard |
| 21 | Yeah well it , it 's probably that he 's just got one . |
| 22 | A might still suspect B of having stolen something from him elsewhere ( e.g. if he has just discovered that a bunch of keys is missing from the hall table ) . |
| 23 | give us time to get dressed , she says oh hurry up now and we 've just come out the bath |
| 24 | Now and you 've just had another prescription for that have n't you ? |
| 25 | He is much better now and I have just seen him walk out of the office unaided . ’ |
| 26 | Now whether he 'd just said that , or whether he actually had . |
| 27 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 28 | They were watching , because a machine rolling around by itself is something that you do watch , even if you 've just had to climb a tree or hide behind a hedge . |
| 29 | We 'll pick her up when she goes for lunch — and we 've got something to say , now , even if it 's just Run for the hills , lady . ’ |
| 30 | That evening , pacing the floor of his chamber before the most able of his mormaers and his churchmen , he had said , ‘ What would I do if I were Siward and I had just lost all hope of my heirs ruling Northumbria ? |