Example sentences of "[pron] have just be [vb pp] [adv prt] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 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 ! ) |
| 8 | ‘ That 'd be a clever trick for someone who 's just been blown up . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Z88 's line editor may then be used to edit the line as if it had just been typed in . |
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| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I know , it 's just been made up for her is it not ? |
| 17 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | have n't got the plan in What has just been pointed out to me is that the er smaller site , that is the one with Oakwood on it , which I 'm sure is familiar to er anybody present , that 's just opposite Skelton Manor and Court , and the larger site was the land to the east of Oakwood incorporating this much larger pond w with what appears to be an island in it , er running right up to the boundary of the conservation area , I think . |