Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] have just [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 2 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 3 | The whole pretence about his future plans does not belong to relations between brothers , especially brothers who have just wept on each other 's shoulders , and who have shown each other such surprising willingness for reunion . |
| 4 | Maggie asked Ethel who 'd just returned from the top level . |
| 5 | He turned to look at Denholm who had just arrived on the bridge . |
| 6 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 7 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 8 | Over lunch I overheard Bernadette say to Sarah who 'd just started with us then , Ricky 's a bit strange at the moment because he 's just been on a course , but he 'll be better next week . |
| 9 | This from Garry who had just come in the front door . |
| 10 | about the Olympic champion , he 'll be in Rome , he 'll be ready for the World Championships , I think he 's had an easy summer so far , but we 've got the likes of Sergio Lopez who 's just taken my European record away , there 's two Americans ; Kirl Stattel and Mike Barryman who 've just gone under the old World Record , so there 's perhaps a dozen of us that are really shouting and trying to get up to number one position . |
| 11 | For the tourney I returned to the serving table to serve the knights who had just fought with a drink , and serve the ladies with bread , cheese and fruit . |
| 12 | Then his gaze moved to Merrill as Heather pulled Rob away to meet a small group who had just come into the room . |
| 13 | A relief worker from one of the region 's charities who has just returned from Somalia says the appalling suffering of women and children will remain etched on his mind for ever . |
| 14 | Skip was saying this to Bilou who had just come from grand-prix multihull racing in France . |
| 15 | I am very conscious of what I would not be putting forward but I would include Rachel Whiteread for her contribution to Documenta : I 'm watching Anya Gallachio who has just shown at the ICA , and I would include Angela Bulloch who has been understood abroad more than here . |
| 16 | She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov . |
| 17 | Stendhal immortalized the city in La Chartreuse de Parme , describing the beautiful women who walked in the streets as Madonnas who had just emerged from the paintings of Correggio and Parmigianino . |
| 18 | The coroner suddenly reined in his horse , staring back at a group of dark figures who had just slipped by . |
| 19 | " I say , you do n't happen to know how this blessed thing works , do you ? " he asked the person who had just come into the music-room . |
| 20 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 21 | A little further away was a young woman who had just arrived on her horse , with her maid on foot . |
| 22 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 23 | She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov . |
| 24 | Appropriately , the Wilcox narrative seems to be the book of his most widely read by the kind of people who have just put in a tough day at the office or have two weeks on the beach before clocking back on . |
| 25 | He is describing the sudden new apprehension of divine truth bestowed upon people who have just embarked on the spiritual life when they are rediscovering the truths of their faith during their periods of study . |
| 26 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 27 | Who was this monstrous man who had just inflicted on her one of the most unpleasant encounters in her entire life ? |
| 28 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 29 | There was a man who 'd just lived through an explosion underground , who turned round and sawed off Pengilly 's injured leg smack smooth , who passed the night forging a banker 's letter of credit , and who spent next day drawing wool over the eyes of the Manchester & leeds directors . |
| 30 | He looked like a man who has just stepped into an empty lift-shaft . |