Example sentences of "[that] have just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks and I 'll just outline the background to the figures that has just presented to you . |
| 2 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 3 | But the local-tax fudge is dangerous because it concentrates attention on a great dilemma facing Mr Major : how do you lead a party that has just overthrown Margaret Thatcher ? |
| 4 | The increase for the year that has just begun is 14 per cent . |
| 5 | Which is hooey ; for when the thumping result is announced , the House burst into a blast of clapping , happy as a choral society that has just flown through the last tricky chorus . |
| 6 | The department has admitted to a substantial underspend in two important areas or research in the financial year that has just ended . |
| 7 | The court heard only 72 cases in the term that has just ended , compared with twice that number a decade ago . |
| 8 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 9 | Players do not like setting down an instrument that has just become nicely warmed up , and taking up a cold one , unless there is a very good reason for it . |
| 10 | He had been in Britain for over twenty years and never had any problem or contact with the police except for one occasion when he was with Mum on a shopping expedition and police officers approached him and said , ‘ You fit the description of a guy that has just mugged a woman down the road . ’ |
| 11 | There we have in one of its aspects the likeness of the old country society that has just passed away to the society described by Chaucer : a cool , matter-of-fact treatment of a subject that could have so many overtones . |
| 12 | It is quite incredible what has happened in my life — the help that has just seemed to come , the opportunities that have arisen , doors that have opened in all directions and , if occasionally one closed , it did n't matter because it always meant a better one would open later . |
| 13 | An interesting parallel for this is provided by an exhibition that has just opened in East Berlin , commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Muntzer , the theologian and Protestant reformer , who led the 16th-century Peasants ' Revolt . |
| 14 | The exhibition that has just opened at the Grand Palais with the title ‘ Les Etrusques et l'Europe ’ therefore has two parts : the world of the ancient Etruscans ; and their latter day reemergence as a cultural influence from 1554 with the discovery of the ‘ Chimera ’ at Arezzo ( which immediately entered the Medici collections ) . |
| 15 | Britain , the only other EC country not to have implemented all provisions of the directive , is doing so in the Criminal Justice bill that has just come before the House of Commons . |
| 16 | All three do their best under Penny Ciniewicz 's rather heavy-handed direction , but they can not beat a first play that has just got too much to say . |
| 17 | What I 'm , what I 'm trying to do is , is just er highlight er paths where they are , and , and , and drawing people 's attention to er to , to rights of way in the county , er obviously a lot of people probably would n't be , maybe people that 've just moved into the area , that sort of thing , people like myself who were n't too familiar with Oxfordshire before , er those sort of people probably would n't be aware without a book like this that there were a lot of paths on their doorstep , and some very pleasant countryside as well . |
| 18 | He looked at Ronni as though she were a particularly disappointing novelty that had just fallen out of his Christmas cracker . |
| 19 | She gave her friend a significant glance and then clamped her lips together , in a parody of someone who was not going to say whatever it was that had just crossed her mind . |
| 20 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |
| 21 | She was very doubtful whether this arrangement would continue , but it suited her purpose to conceal the row that had just occurred . |
| 22 | Panic , that was the first reaction to whatever it was that had just happened . |
| 23 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
| 24 | After all that had just happened , his apparent lack of emotion was impossible to bear , and a wave of anger washed over her . |
| 25 | A wooden scooter he 'd made tipped me over the handlebars on its maiden voyage and he picked it up and smashed it to smithereens against a lamp-post , as if it were a cobra that had just delivered a fatal bite . |
| 26 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 27 | After all , here was a company that had just performed unparalleled feats . |
| 28 | Their beauty outstanding , Their grace unmatched , Their tender babies that had just hatched . |
| 29 | My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me . |
| 30 | Right now there was more danger in the strange , yielding weakness that had just taken her by surprise . |