Example sentences of "have just [verb] [adv] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath . |
| 4 | It 's pretty hard to think about that when you 've just gone out of a Grand Slam event as early as that . |
| 5 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 8 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |
| 9 | It was Dinah , with her arms full of packages ; she had just come out of a cab . |
| 10 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 11 | ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson . |
| 12 | When Gilda heard what happened , she said , ‘ A man who 's just staggered out of a nasty relationship wants a bloody nursemaid at first , and then he wants to play the field for a bit . |