Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] [adv] of [art] " in BNC.

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1 A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . "
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath .
5 It 's pretty hard to think about that when you 've just gone out of a Grand Slam event as early as that .
6 At last , a jazz influenced band who do n't try to look as if they 've just stepped out of the pages of Kerouac .
7 See , and I 've just made out of the stomach .
8 ‘ As you can see , I 've just come out of the bath , ’ Shae said , striving to remain polite , when every instinct in her soul was screaming at her to send the actress running with her tail between her legs .
9 So I 've just come out of the goodness of my heart to warn you to save yourself while you can : you 'll lose Hugo — where is he , by the way ?
10 Well they 've just come out of the chip pan
11 Well I 've just come out of the debate which has just finished on the Palestine and Israel situation and er we passed the voting paper which will become policy for the party , calling for er a non-violent solution recognising the P L O and urging the U N to facilitate negotiations between Israeli government and the P L O.
12 She shakes me gently by the hand and announces quietly , ‘ I 've just got out of the bath . ’
13 He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower .
17 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 .
18 ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson .
19 There was nothing visible downstairs where we were , so immediately went up the stairs at the side to the production level where the blast had come from , and there we met a group of people who had just come out of the control room and they were cut and suffering from shock 'cos the blast had obviously well it d nearly blown the control room apart .
20 At once I can see Annexe B , Summerchild 's list of possible members of the Unit , as clearly as if it had just come out of the porridge oats box .
21 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 .
22 Most faces have turned to watch the ā gri who 's just come out of the shrine and is standing in the doorway .
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