Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ .
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 He has just walked out into a spectacular summer storm .
4 ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’
5 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 .
6 ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery .
7 Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath .
8 ‘ And I do n't see how we could have just driven around in a circle .
9 It 's pretty hard to think about that when you 've just gone out of a Grand Slam event as early as that .
10 I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’
11 ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there .
12 And Anna Freud said , okay that 's what you called it , but supposing we had to look what you 've just described up in a dictionary , what word would be found ?
13 I feel like I 've just woken up after a long dream ; ’
14 Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat .
15 He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink .
19 It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game .
20 The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong .
21 She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute .
22 A Dessie Edgar corner was neatly side-footed home in 79 minutes by Victor Welch who had just come on as a sub .
23 ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity .
24 Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back .
25 By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel .
26 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 .
27 She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk .
28 ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson .
29 Imagine you have just moved in to a new flat .
30 The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue .
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