Example sentences of "just been [verb] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We appealed to have the contribution lowered and that has just been rejected so I 'm going to have to meet with my solicitor about that . |
| 2 | Mike had a dream the other night that she had a , a little boy , but er , the funny thing was it 'd only just been born but it could talk |
| 3 | It had only just been born but it could talk properly and everything |
| 4 | Yeah , you 're told you 're going and we spend the first day overcoming barriers to the fact that they do n't know why they 're there , they 've just been sent and it 'll be good for you , you know this sort of stuff . |
| 5 | Sylvia had just been detained because she was a student representative at school . |
| 6 | It had just been decided that it was not possible that the coffin in a horizontal position could be manoeuvred around the many angles of doors and walls between there and the front door . |
| 7 | Or indeed the work that you 've just been discussing that we 've all pursued jointly in pinning down the government on the transfer of undertakings directive . |
| 8 | The car 's only just been serviced so I 'll take it back to the garage . |
| 9 | It 's only just been serviced so I would have had something to say if there 'd been a problem . |
| 10 | Cos we need to cos we need to sort of all hands to the pump next week cos we 've got a big change-over Yeah but I know ink well no cos the leaflet he 's got has only just been approved and it 's going out next week yeah well I mean you 're to ha you 're to handle their enquiries er deal with their enquiries and then tell them to phone yeah yeah yeah but you see it 's the mailing that 's gone out and and then he 's got to do some advertising first two weeks in Feb . |
| 11 | It has just been agreed that they will talk about the young scientist 's work , the tape-recorder is switched on and he says : |
| 12 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 14 | She could hardly say , ‘ I 've just been told that I 'm pregnant again , ’ because it was only a matter of a week or two . |
| 15 | I 've just been told that I will receive a grant from the Education and Library Board , which will be used to support my children and pay part of the course costs , ’ explained Nikki . |
| 16 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 17 | You 've just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for O A Z Company Limited . |