Example sentences of "have just be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 32 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 33 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 34 | This one you 've just been doing now . |
| 35 | Student asks thirty people , how long it had taken them And you draw a frequency table , which you 've just been doing there . |
| 36 | Some affirmative uses give a slightly different impression from that of being able to assert the occurrence of an event because of its having been perceived — a suggestion that there is a difference between what perception would lead one to think and the way things really are : ( 85 ) Once again the direction in which something is seen to move might depend upon the ratios of firing in cells sensitive to movement in different directions , and after prolonged movement in one direction a stationary image would produce less firing in the cell which had just been stimulated more than normally , hence apparent movement in the opposite direction would be seen to occur . |
| 37 | However , we were told an application for a house in the open countryside in Montgomeryshire had just been called in . |
| 38 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 39 | Everyone put on their coats and crowded to the gate with that mixture of patronage and curiosity reserved by old prisoners for those who had just been shot down . |
| 40 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 41 | Clara had just been born then , and now , more or less on schedule , Hana was in labour again . |
| 42 | She was about to take on a job whose previous holder had just been fired specifically to make room for her . |
| 43 | The Z88 's line editor may then be used to edit the line as if it had just been typed in . |
| 44 | The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in . |
| 45 | It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests . |
| 46 | Cos I wa , I was directly involved when I did a hell of a lot of work for Marconis , they sent me up to Glenrossi 's cos they got a micro er , electronics factory up there doing micro-chips , and one of the big coal mines up there had just been closed down and they said well , there 's no doubt about it , you know wha what we got ta do is re-train the miners ! |
| 47 | This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit . |
| 48 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 49 | It looked as if it had just been brought home by Susan from Blackpool . |
| 50 | Far from having run its course , the struggle for the emancipation of the serfs was about to enter an even more heated phase than the one it had just been going through . |
| 51 | Tom leaned forward , ignoring the piping hot servings of lobster meunière which had just been set reverently in front of them . |
| 52 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 53 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 54 | However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income . |
| 55 | It is the characteristic of the kind of Governments that have just been turned over beyond the line , in Europe . |
| 56 | Many firms have just been hanging on . |
| 57 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |
| 58 | In London roadside cameras have just been set up which clock speeders without them noticing . |
| 59 | That , the thirty three thousand includes twenty three thousand of the registration services carry forwards , but it does not take into account the three thousand which have just been requested here . |
| 60 | He went on : ‘ They are normally engaged in planning non-emergency journeys but since there have not been any it was felt that they have just been sitting around socialising when others are working long hours . |