Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf . |
| 2 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 3 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 4 | Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma . |
| 5 | Having just mopped up the minority in Siemens-Nixdorf , would Siemens be ready to admit a new investor into the company ? |
| 6 | With IMG having just signed up the Wallabies , JIM TUCKER listens to Nick Farr-Jones ' advocacy of greater rewards for the players . |
| 7 | So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months . |
| 8 | Well I was I 've looked , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire , I 've just glanced down the table at certainly at the er my Greater York district colleagues , and er certainly we er are rather surprised that er you have the impression that you have the impression that er erm we could do without the erm the new settlement , quite clearly erm erm certainly Harrogate , Selby , er and Ryedale , and the County Council , believe the the new settlement is absolutely essential , erm and I think that 's erm erm certainly a matter of agreement between er us and those three districts , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 9 | give us time to get dressed , she says oh hurry up now and we 've just come out the bath |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just come off the Isle of Man boat . ’ |
| 11 | Unfortunately for our timing one of the hosts suddenly said , ‘ I 'm sure you do n't want any coffee , Prime Minister , you 've just come off the plane . |
| 12 | we thought oh they 've just got out the guarantee . |
| 13 | So we were back before the firebox , exhausted and happy , and Laura had just shut down the kiln , when Edward came round into the yard again . |
| 14 | Next to a photograph of John were a few words of text which Chris had just written off the top of his head : |
| 15 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |
| 16 | Lonrho had just bought out the brewing concern Heinrichs , which in 1964 had started another daily , called the Zambia Times , and a weekly , the Zambia News . |
| 17 | ’ It had just picked up the muzak . |
| 18 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 19 | Ron had just put down the telephone . |
| 20 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 21 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 22 | At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales . |
| 23 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 24 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 25 | The tot , Britain 's most premature surviving child , had just come off the danger list after a three-month fight for life . |
| 26 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 27 | I have just cleared away the tea things . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ They put a delayed payment on it — and we have just picked up the cheque . ’ |
| 29 | Well he 's just locked up the car ooh |
| 30 | The water 's been flowing so fast it 's just dug up the tree by its roots and it pulled it along and it 's got wedged in the bridge look . |