Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have just [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he 'd love that though cos he could come round and go shit I 've just come out of rehab and everyone would go oh wow man you must be really drugged out . |
| 2 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 3 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 4 | It 's about this research proposal you 've just turned down — what do you mean , ‘ It 's not proper health services research ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He turned and the girl who had just come in let out a little scream . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Gabriel , though he felt as crushed as the thistle she had just stood on . |
| 8 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 9 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 10 | Alone , Franca washed her face in cold water in the kitchen , washing off the powder she had just put on . |
| 11 | Randy and Merlin Sherwood 's beautiful mother adjusted her mascara in the driving mirror and eyed Rupert Campbell-Black who 'd just rolled up alone in a dark green Ferrari to watch his daughter , Tabitha , play in the first final for the under-fourteens . |
| 12 | A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure . |
| 13 | He turned to John Scales who had just come in . |
| 14 | Hordes of grumbly Leeds fans left one place which had just shut up shop . |
| 15 | By noon all the squadron 's reserve aircraft were in use , and the mechanics were sucking blood from cut fingers and grazed knuckles as they worked too fast on battered planes which had just creaked home with streaming canvas and smashed spars , or labouring engines , or cracked fuel lines , or crippled controls , or lopsided under-carriage . |
| 16 | Perhaps , like Meredith Jones , Lloyd 's natural interest and generosity were spurred on both by the obvious scarcity of opportunity for the children in that industrial beehive and by the war which had just broken out . |
| 17 | The place you 've just written about helps you to feel at ease , to feel nourished , warm , loved . |
| 18 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
| 19 | I 'll er for years she 's just come back and she 's I said I want . |
| 20 | ‘ How often in the course of driving a car , taking a walk , or some routine activity , do you ‘ wake up ’ to discover that , for the moment at least , you have no recollection of the places you have just passed through or the things you have just done ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ In the early days we worried a bit about comeback , but over the years we 've just got more outrageous , ’ he says . |
| 22 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
| 23 | ‘ I hope you know how much self-discipline I have just summoned up . |
| 24 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 25 | He sent the clerk hurrying into the back room to get a dark grey suit which had just come in and then said : ‘ Going to New York ? |
| 26 | The detective smiled to soften the barb she had just thrown even though the tone was not hostile . |
| 27 | It is , therefore , worth bearing in mind that if you want a new tank , and have a friend who has just set up a new fish-house , you might do well to order through him/her … |
| 28 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 29 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 30 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |