Example sentences of "[noun sg] have just [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests . |
2 | ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of . |
3 | Quickly she read the article , then handed the paper to Fred , wondering why she felt as though the bottom had just fallen out of her world . |
4 | After all this is the woman whose husband has just run off with Felicity Kendal . |
5 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
6 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
7 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
8 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
9 | You see I I think er er probably one of the best erm Ministers of er of er Education that er has been for quite some considerable time and I bet you throw your hands up in horror when I say this you will totally disagree and I 'm talking here cos his name 's just slipped out of my mind . |
10 | A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task . |
11 | John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know . |
12 | John and his friend have just come back from New , you know , York |
13 | John and his , you know , friend have just come back from New York . |
14 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
15 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
16 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
17 | But I 'm very concerned with what the surveyor 's just said about regarding Road . |
18 | But the reason I have sat down so quickly is because the old man has just popped out on the northbound platform . |
19 | He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me . |
20 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
21 | Fernando was n't the proud man she 'd thought he was and Steve was a creep to have just gone off without letting her know why , with whom and for how long . |
22 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
23 | I pondered on the Italian touch Id experienced early that Sunday afternoon , and reflected on why the rest of the weekend had just fizzled out into one empty blank . |
24 | my dad 's just got back from apparently Millie 's quite brown and my mum they 're not |
25 | ‘ My mother 's just gone off with Rupert Campbell-Black , ’ he said . |