Example sentences of "i have just been [verb] [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 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
3 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
4 | I had just been reading in the Daily Minute about the string of beatings and manslaughters in Rosalind Court : the night before last a Jap computer expert and a German dentist had been found in a parking lot with their faces stomped off . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
7 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | Well , but I 've just been conversing with ghosts myself . |
10 | I 've just been looking at the end-May figures and notice we 're just about holding our own on the Gesamt . |
11 | ‘ I 've just been hearing about Pat 's epic poem about the ‘ other side ’ , ’ said Alison . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
14 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |
15 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
16 | I 've just been thinking about you . " |
17 | ‘ By the way , I 've just been listening to the news . |
18 | Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris . |
19 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
20 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister . |
21 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor . |
22 | like I 've just said , I 've just been speaking for a whole lesson , my voice is just I 've got to talk to you to explain what we 're doing , so let's quietly |
23 | I 've just been shopping with Maggie this morning . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 ? |
26 | It 's a letter from the Executive Services Officer that states , rule six , which is the one I 've just been talking about on the previous motion , is quite clear in saying that only individual members can pursue appeals and not a branch . |
27 | ‘ I 've just been talking to your aunt on the phone . |
28 | I 've just been talking to Captain Montgomery . |
29 | ‘ I 've just been talking to Mrs Flaherty , ’ she said . |
30 | Erm I I 've just been talking to me husband about it . |