Example sentences of "[noun] have just [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Pacey has just taken over as head of the National Criminal Intelligence Service . |
| 2 | THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests . |
| 3 | ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of . |
| 4 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 5 | Sue 's just gone past at a hundred miles per hour . |
| 6 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 7 | Also tonight , Celtic 's UEFA Cup opponents Sporting Lisbon have just touched down in Glasgow to begin preparations for their UEFA Cup tie at Parkhead . |
| 8 | Quickly she read the article , then handed the paper to Fred , wondering why she felt as though the bottom had just fallen out of her world . |
| 9 | The sun 's just crept right round this house . |
| 10 | John the former Manchester City manager is there , a former manager of Shrewsbury as well , he 's with Alan and Blackburn have just gone close to going two one up . |
| 11 | HAPPY campers Ron and Olive Saunders have just returned home from their 166th holiday at Butlins . |
| 12 | After all this is the woman whose husband has just run off with Felicity Kendal . |
| 13 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 14 | Lizzie had just returned home on Sunday evening and was parking her car when the man pounced . |
| 15 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 16 | Bonard had just emerged on to the terrace . |
| 17 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 18 | It was as if all the Wandas and Melissas of her imagination had just drifted ceilingwards with the steam . |
| 19 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | The stuff had just stayed there for years , and Mum had n't been interested , but then people started talking about Dad , and writing to her , and sending pieces they 'd written on him . |
| 22 | Charles wondered what new disaster had hit the production , or which of the producer 's dubious deals had just blown up in his face . |
| 23 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 24 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
| 25 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 26 | Joseph had just stepped out of his room and was pulling the door closed when Patrick came panting up the stairs . |
| 27 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 28 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 29 | You see I I think er er probably one of the best erm Ministers of er of er Education that er has been for quite some considerable time and I bet you throw your hands up in horror when I say this you will totally disagree and I 'm talking here cos his name 's just slipped out of my mind . |
| 30 | A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task . |