Example sentences of "[pers pn] have just [vb pp] [adv] of " in BNC.

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1 The following morning , I 'd just got out of bed when he started barking to get out .
2 I 'd just got out of bed — I was half asleep , ’ she tried , without much conviction .
3 I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in .
4 at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’
5 I had just come out of one of my planning meetings and I metaphorically banged the table and said ‘ I know exactly what you should do . ’
6 I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house .
7 For example , consider the following exchange : A ( to passer by ) : I 've just run out of petrol B : Oh ; there 's a garage just around the corner Here B 's utterance may be taken to implicate that A may obtain petrol there , and he would certainly be being less than fully cooperative if he knew the garage was closed or was sold out of petrol ( hence the inference ) .
8 See , and I 've just made out of the stomach .
9 You must think I 've just crawled out of my crib ! ’
10 I said , ‘ Look , you know I 've just come out of Holloway after being on remand . ’
11 I 've just come out of hospital .
12 ‘ As you can see , I 've just come out of the bath , ’ Shae said , striving to remain polite , when every instinct in her soul was screaming at her to send the actress running with her tail between her legs .
13 So I 've just come out of the goodness of my heart to warn you to save yourself while you can : you 'll lose Hugo — where is he , by the way ?
14 No he 'd love that though cos he could come round and go shit I 've just come out of rehab and everyone would go oh wow man you must be really drugged out .
15 Well I 've just come out of the debate which has just finished on the Palestine and Israel situation and er we passed the voting paper which will become policy for the party , calling for er a non-violent solution recognising the P L O and urging the U N to facilitate negotiations between Israeli government and the P L O.
16 She shakes me gently by the hand and announces quietly , ‘ I 've just got out of the bath . ’
17 Occasionally flicking back a stray blonde hair , Mrs Bottomley comes to the despatch box as if she has just leapt out of a hair spray advert .
18 I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done .
19 Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox .
20 It 's pretty hard to think about that when you 've just gone out of a Grand Slam event as early as that .
21 ‘ You look ravishing — as if you 've just stepped out of Botticelli 's painting , Primavera , ’ he murmured .
22 And here you are , in your own house , and looking like you 've just come out of solitary . ’
23 She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior .
24 Lucy Lane arrived : in a green frock figured in black , dark hair expertly set , a shoulder bag matching her frock ; she looked as though she had just stepped out of her BMW runabout for a spot of window shopping .
25 She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface .
26 Her hair was black and thick and looked tangled , as though she had just got out of bed and not brushed it .
27 She 's just come out of hospital . ’
28 And if Jane could babysit because her mum ca n't because she 's just come out of hospital .
29 She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one .
30 But we nearly fainted when we asked which cottage — it was the one we 'd just moved out of ! —
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