Example sentences of "i [verb] just been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
2 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
3 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |
4 | That 's a sprinter 's example , but it 's the same for any athletic performance , as I 've just been reminded by watching the astonishing improvement of Ray Davidson in these past few years . |
5 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
6 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
7 | I am not , I have just been duped by a clever story-telling girl ’ — Jean Wallace , who runs the Blackpool hotel where runaway schoolgirl Nicola Rogers , 13 , stayed . |