Example sentences of "[noun] have just [vb pp] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | After all this is the woman whose husband has just run off with Felicity Kendal . |
9 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
10 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
11 | Bonard had just emerged on to the terrace . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ’ . |
14 | Charles wondered what new disaster had hit the production , or which of the producer 's dubious deals had just blown up in his face . |
15 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
16 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
17 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
18 | Joseph had just stepped out of his room and was pulling the door closed when Patrick came panting up the stairs . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task . |
23 | John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know . |
24 | John and his friend have just come back from New , you know , York |
25 | John and his , you know , friend have just come back from New York . |
26 | Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London . |
27 | My local mountain rescue team needed a doctor and things have just moved on from there . |
28 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
29 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
30 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |