Example sentences of "[subord] you have just [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 2 | These are the people to whom , for example , you write if you 've just been appointed liquidator of a company and want to get its VAT payments sorted out . |
| 3 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 4 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 5 | If you have just been told that your child has HIV , and if this was unexpected news , the shock will be overwhelming at first . |