Example sentences of "have just been [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if he 's left alone for a minute it feels like an hour to him , he can not remember what has just been said to him , therefore he will repeat himself endlessly , and he has no frame of references to enable him to take part in any kind of conversation . |
| 2 | The position is the same if the offender is committed for some offences under Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.38 and for some under Criminal Justice Act 1967 , s.56 ; the restrictions in Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 have no application to the offences subject to committal under section 38 , as the Crown Court can sentence for those offences as if the offender has just been convicted of them on indictment , but do apply to the offences committed under section 56 . |
| 3 | A headhunter for ten years , Kinnaird has just been commissioned by his first female client , which speaks volumes . |
| 4 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 5 | A REPORT on the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development — the Earth Summit — has just been published with its cover laminated in Courtaulds ' material Clarifoil . |
| 6 | Robert Burke , a Hartley regular , is Bill McCabe , a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl . |
| 7 | Unwanted files are removed by being deposited in a dustbin icon which even bulges to show that something has just been put in it . |
| 8 | Old Mr David Hughes has just been told by his doctors that he 'll have to retire , and the younger members of the family would prefer to sell out and start up on their own . |
| 9 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 10 | So it will help to keep your Bible open at the passage which has just been read to us , from the ninth chapter of the gospel according to Matthew . |
| 11 | Civilians , accompanied by RUC officers , can be seen moving away from the area , having just been evacuated from their houses . |
| 12 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister . |
| 14 | Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris . |
| 15 | By the way , I 've just been glancing through my fixture list , and it seems to me that the real test of our recent good form will come in December/early January . |
| 16 | Er in fact I have now , Mr has found the er the report which has actually got the traffic assessment e that we 've just been referring to which is er no western relief road but with in an inner northern road . |
| 17 | I 've just been thinking about you . " |
| 18 | I 've just been going through it really , the textbook . |
| 19 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 20 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 21 | " Take the Tran family over there who 've just been introduced to your father , for instance . |
| 22 | ( We 've just been talking about you . |
| 23 | Hello my love we 've just been talking about you . |
| 24 | Well no she does n't , I 've just been talking to her . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've just been talking to your aunt on the phone . |
| 26 | Erm I I 've just been talking to me husband about it . |
| 27 | That tray had just been prepared for me personally by the cook ! |
| 28 | Lady Elizabeth Campbell , sixteen , gentle , interested in poetry , cuddly , was discussing the matter of her marriage , which had just been broken to her at dinner by her father , Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , King James the Fourth 's Lieutenant of the Isles , chief of Clan Diarmaid ; and her teeth , which were indeed passable , were much in evidence . |
| 29 | Whether or not it was realized , then , how exposed the French position was in Vietnam , the universal scope of US foreign policy had just been restated in its most monumental form . |
| 30 | Like the three kings in the story , O went home another way , feeling that in some way he had just been warned about something . |