Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | AFTER 26 years our English Electric fridge has just packed up . |
| 32 | But the reason I have sat down so quickly is because the old man has just popped out on the northbound platform . |
| 33 | In the period between the two maps , the former distortion has just faded out whereas the latter has amplified and migrated to become the significant cyclonic region at the south of Greenland in the second map . |
| 34 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 35 | It has just woken up after fifteen thousand years . ’ |
| 36 | Luke 's wedding ring was on the table , close to her hand , and her eyes were wide open , like the eyes of someone who has just woken up . |
| 37 | Either he has just woken up or he has been grinding his face into his pillow . |
| 38 | Parents : When they play into wrong hands What can you do if you take an instant dislike to the friend your daughter or son has just brought home from school ? |
| 39 | Made to Measure ( 0243 533333 ) has just brought out a ‘ Family Skiing ’ brochure featuring child-friendly hotels in France , Switzerland , Austria and the US . |
| 40 | Karrimor is promoting its Adventure Travel range , which includes the excellent Tinamou trousers ( £33 ) , and Rohan has just brought out the tracksuit-style Gobi pants ( £35 ) , which are half the weight of their original Bags . |
| 41 | The American government has just brought out two new reports providing fresh evidence about the life and death of the man who called himself the sinful Messiah . |
| 42 | Another service to industry , which has Just started up , looks like having a great future . |
| 43 | When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’ |
| 44 | But this has just come on . |
| 45 | There 's a very interesting issue has just come up actually 'cause we 're having this fashion show . |
| 46 | However , the perm has just come slowly back again . |
| 47 | He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me . |
| 48 | We catch up with Sue , a 52-year-old mother of four — wearing pigtails and painted-on freckles — whose divorce has just come through . |
| 49 | The last letter , bearing the date of 8 June , read : ‘ My heart is very full this evening — a letter from you has just come in , and that brings you even closer to me . |
| 50 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 51 | ‘ You know someone has just come in downstairs . ’ |
| 52 | Apologetically she added , ‘ Someone I do n't like much has just come in , that 's all . ’ |
| 53 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 54 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 55 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 56 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
| 57 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 58 | Paul Langford 's ‘ A Polite and Commercial People , England 1727–83 ’ has just come out in paperback ( Oxford , £10.95 ) . |
| 59 | And another of them has just come out after doing time for burglary . ’ |
| 60 | One has just come out of prison after doing two years for bodily harm . |