Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] just [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Rachel was born I bought about six stretchsuits , and I 've just been given 12 more but I have n't had to spend much on her clothes yet because I 've had so many presents . |
| 2 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 3 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 4 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 5 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 6 | Well , but I 've just been conversing with ghosts myself . |
| 7 | But I 've just been talking to the head there and he said you know that you know the tor tutorial programme , Mrs started it all erm |
| 8 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |