Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have just [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brichardi have just bred for the first time and have a healthy brood of 20 or so fry . |
| 2 | But suppose that nearly all the entries had just happened to be nasty . |
| 3 | The Council had just agreed to rehouse women who stayed there , and had promised larger , more permanent premises for the Refuge itself . |
| 4 | ‘ It is just not practical to have 80 homeless people living here with one warden looking after them and it seems to us that the council have just shot into this without thinking . ’ |
| 5 | The CSIRO has just applied for a worldwide patent for its use as a fumigant . |
| 6 | The sun had just appeared over the treeline , as blond as clarified butter but powerful none the less , hinting at the furnace-heat to come . |
| 7 | A very warm day here at Lord 's , breeze just starting to get up a little , in fact the sun has just disappeared behind one of a very few clouds . |
| 8 | The first Bewick swans of the winter have just arrived in Britain . |
| 9 | Isabel felt as though one of the mangonels had just rolled over her . |
| 10 | He 'd noticed that the geese had just arrived in the back fields . |
| 11 | It looked as if the serenity of the evening had just come to an end ! |
| 12 | The BBC had just moved from Savoy Hill to Broadcasting House . |
| 13 | The crew have just returned to England after making twenty one flights into war torn Bosnia . |
| 14 | Robbie and the dog had just returned from their stroll and she was about to lock up and go below for the night when a sound from the towpath caught her attention . |
| 15 | Conversely , if the egg had just popped into existence and then exploded , what could explain this bizarre event ? |
| 16 | Wendell Harvey regarded his daughter thoughtfully as she rearranged the big vase of flowers one of the servants had just carried into the room . |
| 17 | Maybe — ’ She did n't like play-acting for her friend , pretending that the thought had just occurred to her , but this was important . |
| 18 | He told police many people hated working in the hangar and the thought had just come into his head that something had to be done . |
| 19 | The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ . |
| 20 | It is a little after breakfast and the Koons have just walked into their first scandal of the day . |
| 21 | ‘ The Danes have just voted on exactly the same treaty . ’ |
| 22 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 23 | As I sat there I recalled the words the Doctor had just spoken to me and the tears came back . |
| 24 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |
| 25 | ‘ The neighbour 's just fallen into his barbecue ! ’ |
| 26 | The dominant factor , in relation to poor housing conditions , lack of proper sanitation , food shortages and growing unemployment , was the fact that the country had just emerged from the horrors of the First Great War . |
| 27 | The company had just reopened following a shutdown after a similar incident in March . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes and no , ’ mumbled Hyacinth , to whom the news of the arrest and incarceration of the chairman of the YCs had just come as a surprise . |
| 29 | The party 's just begun for Democrats in New Jersey : New Jersey used to be the butt of TV comics . |
| 30 | The finch has just crashed to the floor of its cage with its wing clasped in its beak ( not for much longer , chickabiddy ) and I take it as an omen . |