Example sentences of "[pron] have just [been] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 2 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 3 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |
| 4 | That 's a sprinter 's example , but it 's the same for any athletic performance , as I 've just been reminded by watching the astonishing improvement of Ray Davidson in these past few years . |
| 5 | It seemed odd , anyway , to be holding a kind of celebratory dinner , the original highspot of the weekend , when someone had just been killed in the very kitchen where the preparations were taking place . |
| 6 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 7 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 8 | I am not , I have just been duped by a clever story-telling girl ’ — Jean Wallace , who runs the Blackpool hotel where runaway schoolgirl Nicola Rogers , 13 , stayed . |
| 9 | Erm it comes back to the point which has just been made about the er , about the erm why have this system of election by thirds and almost backfired on , on , on , on the leader of the council yeah ? |
| 10 | THE Committee for Socialist Democracy , which has just been formed in riot-torn Timisoara , is the first sign of organised and coherent opposition in Romania since President Ceausescu became Communist Party leader almost 25 years ago . |
| 11 | You can hear his background , taste and influences on ‘ Report To The Dance Floor ’ , his contribution to the ‘ Biorhythms 2 ’ compilation , which has just been released in remixed form on a label notorious for its bleeps . |
| 12 | So it will help to keep your Bible open at the passage which has just been read to us , from the ninth chapter of the gospel according to Matthew . |
| 13 | This was carried out by Sachs ( 1967 ) and it compared recall of sentences which had just been heard with recall of sentences which had been heard earlier in a passage . |
| 14 | Lady Elizabeth Campbell , sixteen , gentle , interested in poetry , cuddly , was discussing the matter of her marriage , which had just been broken to her at dinner by her father , Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , King James the Fourth 's Lieutenant of the Isles , chief of Clan Diarmaid ; and her teeth , which were indeed passable , were much in evidence . |
| 15 | She turned her attention to the bowl of soup which had just been placed in front of her . |
| 16 | By 1923 , the rise of the Saudi Kingdom presented a new threat to stability , and so a convention fixed the border between the emirate of Kuwait and Iraq , which had just been created under a British mandate . |
| 17 | This was the journal Jewry Ueber Alles which had just been published in February 1920 , and had altered its name to The Hidden Hand in September 1920 and to the British Guardian in May 1924 . |
| 18 | Scarlet could not now imagine how she had passed the week with the house next door empty and soulless : she tidied the kitchen in readiness for her friend 's return and sat down to read the local paper , two copies of which had just been delivered through the letterbox . |
| 19 | The photographers from the drawing office came in with the news which had just been broadcast on the radio . |
| 20 | The shelter sees many dogs which have just been dumped on Dartmoor — a favourite spot for ‘ losing ’ pets , as the wilderness has few witnesses . |
| 21 | South Africa have named for the same job , not a professional journalist , but Dr. Nick Labuschagne , a man who has just been ousted as President of the Natal Rugby Union . |
| 22 | Ms Achtenberg is an avowed lesbian who has just been confirmed as an assistant secretary in the department of Housing and Urban Development . |
| 23 | Robert Burke , a Hartley regular , is Bill McCabe , a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl . |
| 24 | I frowned like someone who has just been put on the spot and is afraid of making a fool of himself . |
| 25 | ( Emma looking in a mirror , indoors , in the evening ; she has just been seduced by Rodolphe ) ‘ Her eyes had never been so large , so black , nor contained such depth . ’ |
| 26 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 27 | ‘ The look on your face was like a naughty schoolgirl who 'd just been caught with a stolen pie . |
| 28 | When Creed called , Jed was watching a news report about a vulture who 'd just been arrested on a murder charge . |
| 29 | " Take the Tran family over there who 've just been introduced to your father , for instance . |
| 30 | ‘ Tommy , you 've just been cautioned for the murder of … ‘ |