Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] [adv] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but er one of our major competitors has just gone out of business so we 'll get a spin off from that both in both in estates er and in the hotel scene so |
| 2 | A book about voodoo in Haiti written in the 1930s might seem an unlikely candidate for an NI Classic — especially since it has just gone out of print . |
| 3 | One has just come out of prison after doing two years for bodily harm . |
| 4 | The following morning , I 'd just got out of bed when he started barking to get out . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd just got out of bed — I was half asleep , ’ she tried , without much conviction . |
| 6 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 7 | For example , consider the following exchange : A ( to passer by ) : I 've just run out of petrol B : Oh ; there 's a garage just around the corner Here B 's utterance may be taken to implicate that A may obtain petrol there , and he would certainly be being less than fully cooperative if he knew the garage was closed or was sold out of petrol ( hence the inference ) . |
| 8 | ‘ You look ravishing — as if you 've just stepped out of Botticelli 's painting , Primavera , ’ he murmured . |
| 9 | I 've just come out of hospital . |
| 10 | I said , ‘ Look , you know I 've just come out of Holloway after being on remand . ’ |
| 11 | No he 'd love that though cos he could come round and go shit I 've just come out of rehab and everyone would go oh wow man you must be really drugged out . |
| 12 | you know , sometimes people , sort of , look as if they 've just got out of bed ! |
| 13 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 14 | While the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum , he helped in creating the new displays for the Museum 's collection of classical antiquities that had just come out of wartime storage . |
| 15 | And in EastEnders Arthur Fowler had just come out of prison after getting into deep money trouble . |
| 16 | One of the young men had just come out of prison , and there were many cheerful jokes about his very short hair-cut . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 19 | I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house . |
| 20 | Her hair was black and thick and looked tangled , as though she had just got out of bed and not brushed it . |
| 21 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 22 | And as if on cue , reports have just come in of tracks and sightings of live rhinos in two Sumatran reserves — Way Kambas and Berbak Game Reserve in Jambi — where they were believed extinct . |
| 23 | She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one . |
| 24 | One 's just come out of prison . |
| 25 | He 's just come out of prison |
| 26 | She 's just come out of hospital . ’ |
| 27 | And if Jane could babysit because her mum ca n't because she 's just come out of hospital . |