Example sentences of "just been [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Elizabeth Campbell , sixteen , gentle , interested in poetry , cuddly , was discussing the matter of her marriage , which had just been broken to her at dinner by her father , Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , King James the Fourth 's Lieutenant of the Isles , chief of Clan Diarmaid ; and her teeth , which were indeed passable , were much in evidence . |
| 2 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 3 | However , if he 's left alone for a minute it feels like an hour to him , he can not remember what has just been said to him , therefore he will repeat himself endlessly , and he has no frame of references to enable him to take part in any kind of conversation . |
| 4 | We ca n't look into it because it 's only just been given to us . |
| 5 | Well no she does n't , I 've just been talking to her . |
| 6 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 7 | So it will help to keep your Bible open at the passage which has just been read to us , from the ninth chapter of the gospel according to Matthew . |
| 8 | One 's just been handed to me here , Christine from Derby says I 've kept cats for twenty years and taught them loads of tricks . |
| 9 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 10 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 11 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |