Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] just been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Catching her arm , he said quietly , ‘ I 've just been talking to Donal . ’ |
| 32 | But I 've just been talking to the head there and he said you know that you know the tor tutorial programme , Mrs started it all erm |
| 33 | You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening . |
| 34 | Well no she does n't , I 've just been talking to her . |
| 35 | I 've just been going through it really , the textbook . |
| 36 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 37 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 38 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |
| 39 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 40 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 41 | I have just been watching on television the final scenes from the Royal Shakespeare Company 's performance of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 42 | Indeed , as I write this , I have just been watching on television Lord Denning declaring with self-satisfaction that he puts all such letters straight into the wastepaper basket . |
| 43 | As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound . |
| 44 | I am not , I have just been duped by a clever story-telling girl ’ — Jean Wallace , who runs the Blackpool hotel where runaway schoolgirl Nicola Rogers , 13 , stayed . |
| 45 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 46 | ( Emma looking in a mirror , indoors , in the evening ; she has just been seduced by Rodolphe ) ‘ Her eyes had never been so large , so black , nor contained such depth . ’ |
| 47 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 48 | ‘ Tommy , you 've just been cautioned for the murder of … ‘ |
| 49 | You 've just been appointed as a care assistant . |
| 50 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 51 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 52 | He had no income when he married The Maid of Bath , the singer Miss Linley , but he used the £3,000 she had just been given by a disappointed but grateful , rich admirer , to buy a grand house in London 's fashionable Portman Square , and furnish it lavishly . |
| 53 | She had just been shaken by a ‘ terrible adventure ’ . |
| 54 | ‘ I beg your pardon ? ’ said Mrs Cramp again , reeling back as if she had just been slapped in the face . |
| 55 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 56 | We knew she had just been promoted at work , so it could n't be that . |
| 57 | Viewer , the add-in that lets you see the contents of files still on disk , has been improved and now allows the import of ASCII text and now lets you save the current worksheet and retrieve a new file in a single command — so reducing the risk of +:F7 you loosing the work you had just been doing before using it ! |
| 58 | She is simply an older version of the woman you have just been talking to , and so the farce goes into Round Two with defeat for the customer the only possible outcome . |
| 59 | SHE lives with Batman star Michael Keaton , she danced with Bruce Springsteen on his video of Dancing In the Dark , she 's just been seen in the movie Cocoon : The Return . |
| 60 | ‘ So far she 's just been infaturated with him . |