Example sentences of "[pers pn] have just [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says . |
| 3 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 4 | I think I 've just sewn up a deal on a new account . ’ |
| 5 | Well I was I 've looked , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire , I 've just glanced down the table at certainly at the er my Greater York district colleagues , and er certainly we er are rather surprised that er you have the impression that you have the impression that er erm we could do without the erm the new settlement , quite clearly erm erm certainly Harrogate , Selby , er and Ryedale , and the County Council , believe the the new settlement is absolutely essential , erm and I think that 's erm erm certainly a matter of agreement between er us and those three districts , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've just come off the Isle of Man boat . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just got rather a cold , ’ she said . |
| 8 | What I 've just described there a f is a full and complete contract and you tick down there . |
| 9 | I 've just had rather a disturbing meeting with one of my girlfriends . ’ |
| 10 | I have just cleared away the tea things . ’ |
| 11 | I have just wiped out a whole line by carelessly resting my finger on a key , and earlier it kept telling me ‘ mistake ’ — not , of course , helpfully saying what the mistake was . |
| 12 | ‘ My husband and I have just taken out a massive loan to finance the purchase of offices and manufacturing equipment . |
| 13 | I have just put together a mail shot which I am sending to all Premier League chairmen . |
| 14 | Unfortunately for our timing one of the hosts suddenly said , ‘ I 'm sure you do n't want any coffee , Prime Minister , you 've just come off the plane . |
| 15 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |
| 16 | And a man to whom she had just thrown down a deliberate challenge . |
| 17 | She 's just picked up the children from a rendezvous with their father who had an afternoon 's access , and he 'd shouted at her and them in the street and threatened to take the children away . |
| 18 | Oh we we 've just sent out a six thousand mailer . |
| 19 | give us time to get dressed , she says oh hurry up now and we 've just come out the bath |
| 20 | ‘ We 've just picked up a message on the Miletti family line , dottore . |
| 21 | ‘ They put a delayed payment on it — and we have just picked up the cheque . ’ |
| 22 | ( 4 ) Rigby Electronics ( Harvard OTC ) " They 've just brought out a device for checking whether a credit card belongs to a particular person or not . |
| 23 | Well no , if you remember they they 've just started now a review of nineteen ninety three 's reorganisation because everything that moved from Newark to West Bridgford has moved back again |
| 24 | we thought oh they 've just got out the guarantee . |
| 25 | Hagglers need nerve , particularly the ability to keep calm when they have just turned down an offer but can not yet be sure that another is forthcoming , says the book . |
| 26 | ’ It had just picked up the muzak . |
| 27 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 28 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 29 | He had just picked up a particularly attractive ring , when a girl 's voice said , ‘ That 's not for sale . ’ |
| 30 | The water 's been flowing so fast it 's just dug up the tree by its roots and it pulled it along and it 's got wedged in the bridge look . |