Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 62 | The man who 'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall , very lean , very dark . |
| 63 | The commodore , having just tacked in from Pin Mill , says that while he recognises the accomplishment of an ancient mariner there in teaching a grey parrot to recite the complete works of Shakespeare in Urdu , and could see that this might help international relations in some way , he is far from certain this was the sort of thing Mr Major had in mind . |
| 64 | Having just lost out to Alan Alda in 1966 for the forthcoming Broadway comedy The Apple Tree , directed by Mike Nichols , but nonetheless now confirmed as a top off-Broadway character actor , Dustin landed the lead in Livings ' Eh ? , which had had a great success at the Aldwych Theatre , London , in Peter Hall 's Royal Shakespeare Company production exactly two years previously . |
| 65 | I remember the sinking feeling still : 1964 , having just moved up to Leeds and my first day at Almscliff — then , and probably still , the best swather of tall poppies in the land . |
| 66 | Having just shelled out for yet another year 's subscription to fabbo Guitarist magazine , I was raisy-eyebrowed to see under ‘ Postscript ’ in September 's issue : ‘ … will not only win that automatic free year 's Letter of the Month subscription … blah , blah , blah , blah … ’ |
| 67 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 68 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 69 | The peasants , having just come out to the fields , turn back , uttering loud cries . |
| 70 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 71 | A breakwater would have just risen up above the horizon and come , become slightly more important . |
| 72 | Apart from that , though , the whole crew might have just come in from Ellis Island Caduta herself was clearly the queen bee here . |
| 73 | ‘ And I do n't see how we could have just driven around in a circle . |
| 74 | Fernando was n't the proud man she 'd thought he was and Steve was a creep to have just gone off without letting her know why , with whom and for how long . |
| 75 | Decisions decisions decisions — I 've never made any decisions on my own before , I 've just gone along with what everyone said . |
| 76 | It 's pretty hard to think about that when you 've just gone out of a Grand Slam event as early as that . |
| 77 | For example , consider the following exchange : A ( to passer by ) : I 've just run out of petrol B : Oh ; there 's a garage just around the corner Here B 's utterance may be taken to implicate that A may obtain petrol there , and he would certainly be being less than fully cooperative if he knew the garage was closed or was sold out of petrol ( hence the inference ) . |
| 78 | Wow , he plays drums — multi-talented ! ’ and you 've just grown up with it and it 's no big deal . |
| 79 | You must think I 've just crawled out of my crib ! ’ |
| 80 | At last , a jazz influenced band who do n't try to look as if they 've just stepped out of the pages of Kerouac . |
| 81 | ‘ You look ravishing — as if you 've just stepped out of Botticelli 's painting , Primavera , ’ he murmured . |
| 82 | What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ? |
| 83 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 84 | Well first of all , can I actually correct some of the gross prejudices and inaccuracies that you 've just sent out across the air , which are , frankly , extremely unhelpful . |
| 85 | See , and I 've just made out of the stomach . |
| 86 | That baggage you 've just taken on to help in the bedroom wears one like that and ties her apron right up under her breasts till they nearly pop out , beggin' your pardon , Mr Timothy . |
| 87 | I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’ |
| 88 | I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered . |
| 89 | ‘ You 've just come out on my side of the argument . |
| 90 | And here you are , in your own house , and looking like you 've just come out of solitary . ’ |