Example sentences of "[pron] have just [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says . |
| 3 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 4 | I think I 've just sewn up a deal on a new account . ’ |
| 5 | Well I was I 've looked , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire , I 've just glanced down the table at certainly at the er my Greater York district colleagues , and er certainly we er are rather surprised that er you have the impression that you have the impression that er erm we could do without the erm the new settlement , quite clearly erm erm certainly Harrogate , Selby , er and Ryedale , and the County Council , believe the the new settlement is absolutely essential , erm and I think that 's erm erm certainly a matter of agreement between er us and those three districts , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've just come off the Isle of Man boat . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just got rather a cold , ’ she said . |
| 8 | What I 've just described there a f is a full and complete contract and you tick down there . |
| 9 | I 've just had rather a disturbing meeting with one of my girlfriends . ’ |
| 10 | I have just cleared away the tea things . ’ |
| 11 | I have just wiped out a whole line by carelessly resting my finger on a key , and earlier it kept telling me ‘ mistake ’ — not , of course , helpfully saying what the mistake was . |
| 12 | ‘ My husband and I have just taken out a massive loan to finance the purchase of offices and manufacturing equipment . |
| 13 | I have just put together a mail shot which I am sending to all Premier League chairmen . |
| 14 | ‘ The only thing that can be said is that somebody has just snuffed out a very special person who was going to achieve an incredible amount in life . |
| 15 | Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | Unfortunately for our timing one of the hosts suddenly said , ‘ I 'm sure you do n't want any coffee , Prime Minister , you 've just come off the plane . |
| 20 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |
| 21 | And a man to whom she had just thrown down a deliberate challenge . |
| 22 | A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure . |
| 23 | At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales . |
| 24 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 25 | She 's just picked up the children from a rendezvous with their father who had an afternoon 's access , and he 'd shouted at her and them in the street and threatened to take the children away . |
| 26 | Oh we we 've just sent out a six thousand mailer . |
| 27 | give us time to get dressed , she says oh hurry up now and we 've just come out the bath |
| 28 | ‘ We 've just picked up a message on the Miletti family line , dottore . |
| 29 | ‘ They put a delayed payment on it — and we have just picked up the cheque . ’ |
| 30 | 22 Something 's just gone down a hole in the skirting board . |