Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have just be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The kid gets on his bicycle ; for a few moments he wears the expression of someone who had just been made aware of his own mortality . |
| 32 | Winston Churchill , who had just been defeated as Liberal candidate for Leicester , West , declared that a Labour Government would be a ‘ national misfortune such as has usually befallen a great state only on the morrow of defeat in war ’ . |
| 33 | Pritt , MP , who had just been expelled from the Labour Party , its main support came from the Communists . |
| 34 | Management at Darlington 's Memorial Hospital introduced new procedures a few weeks ago when no food could be found in the hospital for a diabetic patient who had just been admitted . |
| 35 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 36 | The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount . |
| 37 | ‘ Oh God , every day it seems I 'm speaking to a mate who 's just been robbed , ’ said Woody , sometime Cross Key 's barman , in his thick Lancashire accent . |
| 38 | Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in . |
| 39 | Now before Neil starts panicking and worrying about that , bear in mind that that is spread over the whole spectrum of operations , including things like heart transplants and the like , and also , for example , an elderly person who 's just been smashed up by er Astra G T E |
| 40 | ‘ That 'd be a clever trick for someone who 's just been blown up . ’ |
| 41 | He 's a very , very emotional , unstable dictator , who 's just been determined somehow to exploit his position geographically , in the Middle East , to try and emerge as a sort of mini superpower , and to that end , he 's done a lot of terrible things , of which the invasion of Kuwait was really only one . |
| 42 | Like a woman who 's just been well and truly kissed . |
| 43 | That 's the motto of an 82-year-old North Yorkshire woman who 's just been accepted into the Writers Guild . |