Example sentences of "just been [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 2 | This is where the swans have been spending the regatta — at Egham just off the M25 in Surrey — it 's just been made the national swan sanctuary and has around 100 birds at any one time . |
| 3 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 4 | Rupert Bear is not only the world 's tallest hot air balloon and a leading children 's favourite since 1920 , he has just been appointed the National Trust 's young ‘ green ’ spokesman , or should one say spokesbear . |
| 5 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 6 | And the unique project has just been given the Royal seal of approval . |
| 7 | I 've just been doing the wrong question . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been told the same . |