Example sentences of "have just been [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Feargal has just been telling me how you helped out this morning , and your idea of putting pictures on the menus . |
| 2 | But whether an inexperienced schoolboy can be all right after the type of traumatic experience to which he has just been subjected I would not care to say . |
| 3 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 4 | They 've just been terrorizing us and taking our money to protect us from themselves ! ’ |
| 5 | Is n't that what you 've just been telling me ? |
| 6 | ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’ |
| 7 | You 've just been telling us all what a relief it was to get out of the city . ’ |
| 8 | Er so it 's mainly erm what I 've just been telling you about cleaning all |
| 9 | I 've just been borrowing you . |
| 10 | We 've just been ironing it , sellotaping it and refolding it . |
| 11 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 12 | P.S. I 've just been informed it 's arrived . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've just been tellin' you how Mr Winterburn chased me all over the house when 'is fam'ly was at church one Sunday . |
| 14 | Sir I 've just been recording you . |
| 15 | a hundred , you know that , you just sort of , you 've just been doing it on those out of your head , so we 've got two hundred times , now what do we finish off with , we finish off with once |
| 16 | I 've just been doing it together . |
| 17 | I I 've just been told I 've just been told that our entire switchboard is totally lit up . |
| 18 | She was particularly glad to see him as she had just been told she was pregnant . |
| 19 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 20 | need to know , need to know , I do n't know mum , I could n't tell you just erm stick it on before you go to bed just give it a bit of time to take the chill of it , alright , bye You can if you wish discard everything that 's just been said I mean my mother 's trying to book my holiday which does n't surprise me , , but then again she usually tries to anyway , where you going ? , what you doing ? , who you going with ? right , I shall tell you now the exam questions shall I ? , what do you want to know ? |
| 21 | Geoffrey 's just been telling me all about it . |
| 22 | ‘ Leith 's just been telling me that you both work for the same firm , ’ he put on a front for the rest of the world to joke . |
| 23 | He 's just been telling us about how this bloke 's condoms dropped out of his pocket . |
| 24 | British Rail have n't had anything at all to report to us , and the local bus company 's just been telling us that things are running fine . |
| 25 | The landlady looks like she 's just been told she 'll stay ugly for the rest of her life . |
| 26 | ‘ Thirty-five , he is , and he 's just been told he 's not got long to live . |
| 27 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 28 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |