Example sentences of "[verb] just been [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor . |
2 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |
3 | I 've just been talking to Captain Montgomery . |
4 | ‘ I 've just been talking to Mrs Flaherty , ’ she said . |
5 | Catching her arm , he said quietly , ‘ I 've just been talking to Donal . ’ |
6 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
7 | It was no accident that when I was writing this , the Conservatives had just been returned to power in the 1983 election , and one of their first moves was to try to disguise popular discontent with the police by the restoration of the rope . |
8 | Second was the husband of Mrs Chapple ; Mrs Chapple had just been admitted to hospital and seemed unlikely to return home : |
9 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
10 | Do they do this purposely cos that man 's just been sent to prison the same thing is n't it ? |