Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have just [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he 'd love that though cos he could come round and go shit I 've just come out of rehab and everyone would go oh wow man you must be really drugged out . |
| 2 | It 's about this research proposal you 've just turned down — what do you mean , ‘ It 's not proper health services research ? ’ |
| 3 | But as she did so , she thought she heard a thin , piercing sound , like the wail of a child who has just wakened up and found himself alone . |
| 4 | He turned and the girl who had just come in let out a little scream . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Gabriel , though he felt as crushed as the thistle she had just stood on . |
| 6 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 7 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 8 | Alone , Franca washed her face in cold water in the kitchen , washing off the powder she had just put on . |
| 9 | Randy and Merlin Sherwood 's beautiful mother adjusted her mascara in the driving mirror and eyed Rupert Campbell-Black who 'd just rolled up alone in a dark green Ferrari to watch his daughter , Tabitha , play in the first final for the under-fourteens . |
| 10 | A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure . |
| 11 | Hordes of grumbly Leeds fans left one place which had just shut up shop . |
| 12 | Perhaps , like Meredith Jones , Lloyd 's natural interest and generosity were spurred on both by the obvious scarcity of opportunity for the children in that industrial beehive and by the war which had just broken out . |
| 13 | The place you 've just written about helps you to feel at ease , to feel nourished , warm , loved . |
| 14 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
| 15 | ‘ I hope you know how much self-discipline I have just summoned up . |
| 16 | He sent the clerk hurrying into the back room to get a dark grey suit which had just come in and then said : ‘ Going to New York ? |
| 17 | The detective smiled to soften the barb she had just thrown even though the tone was not hostile . |
| 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 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 20 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 21 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |
| 22 | We say this , not simply because of the weight of evidence we have just set down , but because of two additional factors of significance . |
| 23 | In fact , the wonderful night they had just shared only made her more determined than ever to go . |
| 24 | Inside Nottingham 's Ritzy club in the middle of the afternoon TV production assistants are busy organising blindfolds for a new game they 've just dreamt up called ’ Kiss , Cuddle And Feel ’ for the evening 's show . |
| 25 | In the past I 'd just resented how long he spent in the office . |
| 26 | So here I am again , ‘ his nibs ’ lying prostrate at my feet , looking up at me ; big amber eyes melting like the chocolate gateau I 've just put out to thaw . |
| 27 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 28 | The man who 'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall , very lean , very dark . |
| 29 | When Gilda heard what happened , she said , ‘ A man who 's just staggered out of a nasty relationship wants a bloody nursemaid at first , and then he wants to play the field for a bit . |
| 30 | ‘ A neurotic , ’ he said , ‘ is a man who 's just worked out what 's going on . ’ |