Example sentences of "[verb] just be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q My 3-year-old mongrel has just been to the vet to have his teeth cleaned , as a checkup revealed that he had dental problems . |
| 2 | I understand that my right hon. Friend has just been to Oman , so perhaps he can give the House some information . |
| 3 | Eventually he got £30 and as he left the room , Binkie said , ‘ I know : that old Welsh pit-pony has just been at you . ’ |
| 4 | Robert Ludlum 's The Road to Omaha ( Grafton ) is an out-of-the-norm one and he will be in the UK to promote ; and Ruth Rendell 's Kissing the Gunner 's Daughter ( Arrow ) has just been on television and is wonderful . |
| 5 | Harry Enfield has just been through a tough day auditioning people for his new BBC comedy series . |
| 6 | Friendship is about caring for the other person , respecting the other person , sharing your interests with the other person , enjoying just being with the other person — but not about suffocating the other person with big slobbering kisses ! |
| 7 | Mr and Mrs Lennox were there in style and enjoying just being in the circle instead of up in the gallery where most of Rafferty 's regulars were . |
| 8 | Anyway sh she phoned me back and she said yes he was , he was dead keen , he wished it 'd 've just been like pop quiz but he 'll go anyway . |
| 9 | With you I just wanted to savour the initial stages , step by step , to enjoy just being with you , whatever we were doing Besides , ’ he added very softly , his fingers stroking the back of her hand , ‘ you 're not frigid , my lovely . |
| 10 | just because we 're special type of thing , it 'll be OK cos he will be able to enjoy just being with us or not , as the case may be |
| 11 | I mean , alright a few mad things happened and everything and when I came home I was whacked because we 'd just been on a big adventure theme park for a month . |
| 12 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 13 | ( She told me later she 'd just been in hospital . |
| 14 | Diana arrived at Sandringham that weekend having just been through a most traumatic period . |
| 15 | Dear Guitarist I feel I must put pen to paper , having just been to an excellent ‘ 30 Years of Jim Marshall ’ evening here in Copenhagen , Denmark . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've just been through all that ! |
| 17 | ‘ We 've just been through a decade where we watched surface responsibility get peeled away from a lot of people and institutions . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah I 've just been through there . |
| 19 | ‘ I think it does have something to do with drugs , because if you look at all those Spiral Tribe people who 've just been on E for so long , y'know ? |
| 20 | My dear , we 've just been on the most shattering binge in North Africa . ’ |
| 21 | I 've just been at a two day conference at erm not very far from here , at Wisden House in which erm a number of erm top industrialists erm led by the former chairman of I C I have all unanimously been saying how bad they think it is for our future technological development and export development if overseas students get out of the habit of coming here . |
| 22 | People ring up about the match they 've just been to and complain or say who they think should be the next England manager , etc . |
| 23 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 24 | Yeah , okay , I 've just been to Asda so kids are on the way to put the bits of shopping in the van , alright , cos I got 'em some cereal and some bread and I 'll bring up the toaster , they can take the toaster with 'em for a while and oh there is , is there ? |
| 25 | We 've just been to Nursery . |
| 26 | No , we 've just been to B and M Bargains , Lyndsey said , oh God ! |
| 27 | I 've just been to the physio before I came here . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've just been with Michael Stein in Immigration . |
| 29 | Bet it 's all cos Nick is n't down there or something , no you 've just been with Nick . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've just been into the village to post a letter . |