Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have just [been] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Similarly , in the report of ‘ a sex beast nicknamed ‘ The Acne Kid ’ ’ ( Star ) , who boasted to the victim that he had just been freed from prison and said : ‘ I 've served time for rape before ’ , speculation about this possible link was scotched quickly . |
| 32 | ‘ Not too good , I 've heard , ’ said Greg , not adding that he had just been grilling the doctor who signed her second husband 's death certificate . |
| 33 | What he fails to mention is that he 's just been fined by his fun loving Durham County Cricket Club colleagues for turning up unshaven . |
| 34 | But David Stevenson , chief executive of Edinburgh Woollen Mills and former international pole-vaulter , would have you believe that he has just been rather lucky . |
| 35 | This book is also different to ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ because there are no racist scenes , only prejudice towards Imamu from both the Police and in some cases the Aimsleys , when their daughter goes missing and they think that because he is a street boy who comes from Harlem , a lower class area than Brooklyn and that he has just been acquitted on a murder rap , he 's got something to do with Perk 's disappearance . |