Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] just [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some affirmative uses give a slightly different impression from that of being able to assert the occurrence of an event because of its having been perceived — a suggestion that there is a difference between what perception would lead one to think and the way things really are : ( 85 ) Once again the direction in which something is seen to move might depend upon the ratios of firing in cells sensitive to movement in different directions , and after prolonged movement in one direction a stationary image would produce less firing in the cell which had just been stimulated more than normally , hence apparent movement in the opposite direction would be seen to occur . |
| 2 | Cadfael could not choose but feel some sympathy for one whose dubious but daring enterprise had come full circle , and now threatened him with disgrace and punishment ; all the more as Cadfael himself had just been spared a possibly similar exposure . |
| 3 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’ |
| 5 | somebody came to settle up bang and he was playing thinking he 'd just been wounded and in fact he 'd been shot and killed , poor chap |
| 6 | A TEENAGER and three of his pals died when he crashed the car he had just been given as a present . |
| 7 | In the event , the letter to Anselm containing the passionate phrases condemning lay investiture which have just been quoted , had no effect on the subsequent negotiations . |
| 8 | So it will help to keep your Bible open at the passage which has just been read to us , from the ninth chapter of the gospel according to Matthew . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 11 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 12 | A couple of hours after drafting this , I receive a call from a local health visitor asking advice about a child who has just been diagnosed . |
| 13 | Ms Achtenberg is an avowed lesbian who has just been confirmed as an assistant secretary in the department of Housing and Urban Development . |
| 14 | Any illustrations for the scene we 've just been doing and the things we 've already been talking about , or any new ideas . |
| 15 | Robert Burke , a Hartley regular , is Bill McCabe , a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl . |
| 16 | So I ignore the directive I have just been given , and head straight back to London . |
| 17 | Erm it comes back to the point which has just been made about the er , about the erm why have this system of election by thirds and almost backfired on , on , on , on the leader of the council yeah ? |
| 18 | The process which has just been described is clearly a very complex affair , but most of the decisions involved in it are programmable types of decisions . |
| 19 | The shelter sees many dogs which have just been dumped on Dartmoor — a favourite spot for ‘ losing ’ pets , as the wilderness has few witnesses . |
| 20 | Other infantrymen were irked by the impersonal casualness with which the heavy gunners crews emerged from their comfortable shelters to fire at targets they could not see , ‘ appearing to be much less concerned than about the soup or the bucket of wine which had just been brought ’ |
| 21 | When Creed called , Jed was watching a news report about a vulture who 'd just been arrested on a murder charge . |
| 22 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 23 | However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income . |
| 24 | ‘ If we do n't hurry we 're likely to meet Florian and Nicky in the lift , and right this minute I do n't think I could bring myself to keep quiet about the things you 've just been saying . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The look on your face was like a naughty schoolgirl who 'd just been caught with a stolen pie . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I think , if we 're going to be realistic , there are practical dangers for that , that can put in danger erm some of the things we 've just been talking about . |
| 29 | ‘ I have a feeling I 've just been conned , Father . |
| 30 | Measures of productivity in services — even within the restricted area which has just been examined — are , of course , subject to wide margins of error . |