Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have just been told that your child has HIV , and if this was unexpected news , the shock will be overwhelming at first . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This brings us to rule five : only ever praise somebody ( a ) in order to condemn someone else ( ‘ Danny Baker is genuinely witty and not childish like so many Radio 1 ‘ personalities ' ’ ) or ( b ) if they have just been sacked ( ‘ I found the previous presenters stylish , informed and witty , creating just the right atmosphere . |
| 4 | ‘ As I have just been telling your nurse , I 'm having trouble listening to a chest . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | As they have just been inexplicitly stated , each of these views is in fact itself better regarded as a set of possible views . |