Example sentences of "[pers pn] have just [been] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 2 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 3 | She looked small , frail , and feeble ; her face was dazed and vacant , as if she 'd just been woken up and could n't quite remember where she was . |
| 4 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |
| 5 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 6 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 7 | The Z88 's line editor may then be used to edit the line as if it had just been typed in . |
| 8 | The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in . |
| 9 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 10 | I know , it 's just been made up for her is it not ? |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 12 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |
| 13 | It 's just been taken over by you know , it 's gone into the big big time er Oh dear me , I forget his name now . |