Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] who have just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish stand-off , who was among the Lions replacements , was forced to parade , bouquet in hand , from behind one set of posts to the red carpet on the half-wayline as chaperone to Mireille Mathieu , the French songstress who had just rendered all three verses of the Marseillaise ( with the chorus repeated each time ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 3 | He was goggling at the First Spiritualists like a medieval alchemist who has just raised the Devil . |
| 4 | The coroner suddenly reined in his horse , staring back at a group of dark figures who had just slipped by . |
| 5 | ‘ Precisely , ’ he said , giving her the kind of look a great thespian might give an impish soubrette who had just delivered his punchline . |
| 6 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 7 | VOLCANO by Shusaku Endo Sceptre , £4.99 JINPEI SUDA , a Japanese seismologist who has just retired , is convinced that the volcano Akadake , his obsession throughout his career , is dormant ; but Durand , a defrocked French Catholic priest , believes the volcano will erupt and sweep away the new Christian retreat being built on its slopes , as a sign of divine displeasure with Japan . |
| 8 | Each character is musically differentiated : the countess has two magnificently melancholic arias in which she laments the loss of her husband 's affection ; the count is portrayed as arrogant , cynical and menacing ; Figaro and Susanna are quick-witted , likeable , scheming and intelligent , able to give as good as they get , but both capable as well of jealousy and emotional suffering ; Cherubino is a confused adolescent who has just discovered sex but does n't know what to do with it . |
| 9 | During the intervening seven years , he has become replacement therapy for little girls who have just donated their dolls to Oxfam . |
| 10 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 11 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 12 | Simon Vinkenoog , the founder of Sigma Nederland provided a piece from Amsterdam for the first issue on the then prominent Provos , the proto-Green anarchists who had just won seats on that city 's council . |
| 13 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 14 | The newcomer noticed it , declared , ‘ I like hot steam ; it gives me that real sauna feeling ’ , squeezed herself between two naked bodies and at once began to talk about yesterday 's television talk show featuring a famous biologist who had just published his memoirs . |
| 15 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |
| 16 | In stark contrast to the attitude of the Scribes and Pharisees , Jesus pointed to a poor widow who had just come into the Temple and placed two small coins into the offertory box . |
| 17 | And into the confusion strolled an elderly passer-by who had just popped into the hotel for a quiet ploughman 's lunch and nearly passed out instead . |
| 18 | Inside , sits a diminutive man with a grey beard who has just celebrated his 90th birthday . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've captured a very gay hairdresser who 's just wet his pants . ’ |
| 20 | Professor Garrow 's studies show that a 10-stone woman who has just lost 20lb can eat the same amount — without gaining weight — as a 10-stone woman who has always weighed that amount . |
| 21 | Have you captured a very tall American who has just stolen two million dollars ? ’ |
| 22 | Then his gaze moved to Merrill as Heather pulled Rob away to meet a small group who had just come into the room . |
| 23 | The rejoicing was not shared by the weary infantrymen who had just fought their way on to it . |
| 24 | It came as no surprise in 1990 when Charlie Nicholas 's name was once again associated with a Celtic team who had just experienced their worst season for years . |
| 25 | Who was this monstrous man who had just inflicted on her one of the most unpleasant encounters in her entire life ? |
| 26 | He left the set that day looking for all the world like a nine-stone weakling who had just thrown sand in the face of the beach bully . |
| 27 | After two weeks with no sign of improvement , a friend told me of an excellent new rheumatologist who had just come to work in Chester . |
| 28 | So taboos may exist which prohibit social intercourse between a man and a young girl having her first menstruation , or between females and a young male who has just reached puberty , because there is strong unconscious , or even conscious , desire to have sexual relations with the girls or boys ( incest ) . |
| 29 | It could be achievement of a young child who has just made something . |
| 30 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |