Example sentences of "have just [been] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | have n't got the plan in What has just been pointed out to me is that the er smaller site , that is the one with Oakwood on it , which I 'm sure is familiar to er anybody present , that 's just opposite Skelton Manor and Court , and the larger site was the land to the east of Oakwood incorporating this much larger pond w with what appears to be an island in it , er running right up to the boundary of the conservation area , I think . |
| 2 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 3 | You may like to know that we are represented on the Wales Access Forum , which has just been set up under the auspices of the Countryside Council for Wales . |
| 4 | As a matter of interest and as a direct result of our attendance at five of these Auctions — a total of 37 unweaned foals and ponies were rescued , and a small FOAL SANCTUARY has just been set up in Burnley for their rehabilitation . |
| 5 | That home , however , has just been closed down as part of county hall 's budget cuts . |
| 6 | But before the idea is condemned out of hand , let us remember that the price of petrol has just been brought down by 18p a gallon . |
| 7 | This hotel has just been taken over by Herr and Frau Sulzur , and already there is a friendly atmosphere . |
| 8 | But a compromise has just been worked out between the governor , the tribes and Bruce Babbitt , the ex-governor of Arizona who is now interior secretary , under which casino gambling would be restricted to the reservations , and the tribes would be given slot machines in proportion to their population . |
| 9 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 10 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 11 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 12 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 13 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 14 | It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests . |
| 15 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 16 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 17 | It is the characteristic of the kind of Governments that have just been turned over beyond the line , in Europe . |
| 18 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 20 | I know , it 's just been made up for her is it not ? |
| 21 | Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in . |
| 22 | Now before Neil starts panicking and worrying about that , bear in mind that that is spread over the whole spectrum of operations , including things like heart transplants and the like , and also , for example , an elderly person who 's just been smashed up by er Astra G T E |
| 23 | It 's just been taken over by you know , it 's gone into the big big time er Oh dear me , I forget his name now . |
| 24 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |