Example sentences of "[pron] have just be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 2 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 3 | But the reform of the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy , or CAP which has just been agreed barely makes a nod to organic farmers . |
| 4 | You may like to know that we are represented on the Wales Access Forum , which has just been set up under the auspices of the Countryside Council for Wales . |
| 5 | Some affirmative uses give a slightly different impression from that of being able to assert the occurrence of an event because of its having been perceived — a suggestion that there is a difference between what perception would lead one to think and the way things really are : ( 85 ) Once again the direction in which something is seen to move might depend upon the ratios of firing in cells sensitive to movement in different directions , and after prolonged movement in one direction a stationary image would produce less firing in the cell which had just been stimulated more than normally , hence apparent movement in the opposite direction would be seen to occur . |
| 6 | Tom leaned forward , ignoring the piping hot servings of lobster meunière which had just been set reverently in front of them . |
| 7 | That , the thirty three thousand includes twenty three thousand of the registration services carry forwards , but it does not take into account the three thousand which have just been requested here . |
| 8 | She looked small , frail , and feeble ; her face was dazed and vacant , as if she 'd just been woken up and could n't quite remember where she was . |
| 9 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 10 | Everyone put on their coats and crowded to the gate with that mixture of patronage and curiosity reserved by old prisoners for those who had just been shot down . |
| 11 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |
| 12 | ‘ That 'd be a clever trick for someone who 's just been blown up . ’ |
| 13 | He 's a very , very emotional , unstable dictator , who 's just been determined somehow to exploit his position geographically , in the Middle East , to try and emerge as a sort of mini superpower , and to that end , he 's done a lot of terrible things , of which the invasion of Kuwait was really only one . |
| 14 | Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in . |
| 15 | Now before Neil starts panicking and worrying about that , bear in mind that that is spread over the whole spectrum of operations , including things like heart transplants and the like , and also , for example , an elderly person who 's just been smashed up by er Astra G T E |
| 16 | Erm We 've just the they 've just been altered actually |
| 17 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 18 | and er just at the very end all you could see was her and your man , the hologram and he 'd just been killed about five minutes earlier . |
| 19 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 20 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 21 | It looked as if it had just been brought home by Susan from Blackpool . |
| 22 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 23 | The Z88 's line editor may then be used to edit the line as if it had just been typed in . |
| 24 | The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in . |
| 25 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 26 | It 's just been moved backwards and forwards ! |
| 27 | I know , it 's just been made up for her is it not ? |
| 28 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 29 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |
| 30 | It 's just been taken over by you know , it 's gone into the big big time er Oh dear me , I forget his name now . |