Example sentences of "had just be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | However , we were told an application for a house in the open countryside in Montgomeryshire had just been called in . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
6 | Clara had just been born then , and now , more or less on schedule , Hana was in labour again . |
7 | She was about to take on a job whose previous holder had just been fired specifically to make room for her . |
8 | The Z88 's line editor may then be used to edit the line as if it had just been typed in . |
9 | The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in . |
10 | It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests . |
11 | 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 ! |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | It looked as if it had just been brought home by Susan from Blackpool . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Tom leaned forward , ignoring the piping hot servings of lobster meunière which had just been set reverently in front of them . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |