Example sentences of "of [pron] had just [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And three of them had just been whipped from under me . |
| 3 | Then Pike , or Pike 's body anyway , fiopped all over Quigley as if the two of them had just been exchanging bodily fiuids . |
| 4 | Scarlet could not now imagine how she had passed the week with the house next door empty and soulless : she tidied the kitchen in readiness for her friend 's return and sat down to read the local paper , two copies of which had just been delivered through the letterbox . |
| 5 | ‘ It sounds like a convenient arrangement , ’ Luke commented urbanely , and Maria saw his lip curl sardonically , as if everything he believed of her had just been confirmed . |
| 6 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |