Example sentences of "they have just [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His insults had been no less cutting than the American 's , they 'd just been delivered with more urbanity . |
| 2 | no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught . |
| 3 | They had just been moved into a new milking shed and they were in completely strange surroundings . |
| 4 | I 'm not sure whether the change in areas was the reason for the last flurry or whether they had just been triggered by instinct and gone on the feed . |
| 5 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 6 | For they have just been faced with the prospect of losing £1 million of the money they have to spend on research this year . |
| 7 | The lecture theatre resonates like a drum with the chatter of a hundred-odd students , all talking at once , as if they have just been released from solitary confinement . |
| 8 | I feel an opting-out system would be probably less distressing to the donor 's relatives ( who may find an approach for donation insensitive when they have just been told of an — often — unexpected death ) . |
| 9 | She had taken off her coat , somehow contrived to make herself seem a little dishevelled , as though the two of them had just been snogging on the sofa or something . |
| 10 | And three of them had just been whipped from under me . |