Example sentences of "[noun sg] have just [vb pp] [adv] [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 | The sun 's just crept right round this house . |
| 5 | After all this is the woman whose husband has just run off with Felicity Kendal . |
| 6 | It was as if all the Wandas and Melissas of her imagination had just drifted ceilingwards with the steam . |
| 7 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | The stuff had just stayed there for years , and Mum had n't been interested , but then people started talking about Dad , and writing to her , and sending pieces they 'd written on him . |
| 10 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task . |
| 15 | John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know . |
| 16 | John and his friend have just come back from New , you know , York |
| 17 | John and his , you know , friend have just come back from New York . |
| 18 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 19 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
| 20 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But I 'm very concerned with what the surveyor 's just said about regarding Road . |
| 23 | But the reason I have sat down so quickly is because the old man has just popped out on the northbound platform . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | my dad 's just got back from apparently Millie 's quite brown and my mum they 're not |
| 30 | Parents : When they play into wrong hands What can you do if you take an instant dislike to the friend your daughter or son has just brought home from school ? |