Example sentences of "[pers pn] have just been [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 2 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 3 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 4 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 5 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 6 | For example , we want to be able to take knowledge gained from studying the free recall of nonsense syllables and make predictions about our ability to remember things like telephone numbers , or the names of people we have just been introduced to at parties . |