Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have just " in BNC.

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1 Maggie , in between numbers at a rock concert , talks to Laura about the young student who has just made love to her .
2 This seems to be the view of Lord Donaldson , that truly sagacious Master of the Rolls , who has just called for a new corps of paralegal ‘ civil justices ’ to get people like me off the hook .
3 A young Abyssinian , returning to camp with a victim 's testicle hanging from his belt , he compared to ‘ a deserving young Etonian who has just got his colours for cricket . ’
4 Genet uses the blacks , the way a man who has just emptied his revolver reaches for the knife at his side ’ ( ‘ The Revenge of Jean Genet ’ , 175 ) .
5 By 1030 hours the Wall patrol has completed its escort task and is free to assist an Engineer Corporal who has just had a collision in his car with an East German in the Soviet Sector .
6 Going straight from state ownership to worker ownership is unlikely to change the company 's culture or management style , believes Mr Laurie Brennan , chief executive of New Bridge Consultants , an arm of the law firm , Clifford Chance , set up to promote employee share ownership , and who has just returned from Poland .
7 Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel .
8 The women 's world squash champion , Martine Le Moignan , and Jack Simmons , who has just retired from playing cricket for Lancashire at the age of 48 , receive the MBE .
9 Bristow , who has just regained the world No.1 ranking and was chasing a fifth title , lost 3-1 .
10 Neither Mr Bush nor James Baker , his secretary of state ( who talks about Lithuania and Latvia with the visible enthusiasm of someone who has just sucked a lemon ) , can yet bring himself to think anything but the best of Mr Gorbachev , so helpful last year in Europe , so kind this year in the Gulf .
11 The Homicide Act requires evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control : this is wide enough to include things said or done by persons other than the deceased , and acts done against persons other than D ( e.g. where D is provoked to kill someone who has just committed a sexual offence upon D 's son , daughter , wife , etc . ) .
12 At the very end of the movie Phar Lap a newspaper reporter in Australia seeks out trainer Harry Telford , who has just received news of the horse 's tragic end .
13 The 1922 Committee of backbench MPs is led by Cranley Onslow , stocky , ginger-haired and looking unaccountably like a surveyor who has just arrived to advise on suspected dry rot in the roof .
14 But as she did so , she thought she heard a thin , piercing sound , like the wail of a child who has just wakened up and found himself alone .
15 PHILIPPE ROZIER , who has just finished a three-month ban after Oscar Minotiere was found over the permitted limit of the painkiller , butazolidine , rode the same horse to victory for France in the Euro Horse Trophy in Gothenberg yesterday , writes Alan Smith .
16 VOLCANO by Shusaku Endo Sceptre , £4.99 JINPEI SUDA , a Japanese seismologist who has just retired , is convinced that the volcano Akadake , his obsession throughout his career , is dormant ; but Durand , a defrocked French Catholic priest , believes the volcano will erupt and sweep away the new Christian retreat being built on its slopes , as a sign of divine displeasure with Japan .
17 Property : The man who defies the market Tom Rowland meets the bullish City financier who has just bought Crosby Hall in Chelsea
18 Such is the charisma of a man who has just had seven weeks off following an operation on an old knee injury and has played only two tournaments .
19 It was in the stale stink of the sports hall at Pont Llanfraith leisure centre that he at last looked like a loser : hands thrust deep in the pockets of his best suit , face set solid with emotion , like a football manager who has just lost the Cup Final .
20 It was no secret that Mrs Thatcher was unenthusiastic about the appointment in 1983 of Mr Bernard Weatherill , who has just retired .
21 Robyn turns to face a man who has just entered the shop : tall , heavily built , with bushy sideboards and moustache , a sheepskin coat open over his three-piece suit .
22 ‘ My God , ’ she said , sounding a bit like a vicar who has just discovered the Third World , ‘ this makes one 's own problems seem pretty small , does n't it ? ’
23 I drove into the mouth of a carnivorous wave with the reckless abandon of a man who has just been given a week to live .
24 A reasonable employer would not , for example , be entitled to instruct a man who has just resumed work following a major heart attack to undertake immediately a long and arduous period of foreign travel .
25 If this is doubted , try to write a set of objectives , including criteria for assessment , for the psychological care of an elderly middle class lady who has just had a colostomy performed .
26 In researching the anatomy and posture of the beasts , the museum 's keeper of geology Tristram Besterman , was advised by specialists including the taxidermist Arthur Hayward , who has just completed ‘ Guy ’ , London Zoo 's famous gorilla , for the Natural History Museum .
27 What is your best excuse for a motorway policeman who has just caught you speeding ?
28 I frowned like someone who has just been put on the spot and is afraid of making a fool of himself .
29 A friend who has just seen a Don Ameche movie informs the local doctor of the plot : ‘ He worked in his basement discovering things .
30 Questions can be asked by The Speaker ( see below ) or the player who has just thrown ( or would have just thrown )
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