Example sentences of "[pron] they have just " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like telling someone they had just lost at Russian roulette . |
| 2 | Fifty-six per cent of these men lost their virginity to somebody they knew well ; for 14% , the partner was someone they had just met . |
| 3 | Interesting that the offices of Yeo Davis should be very much less at the leading edge of modern design than the solicitors ' which they had just seen , McLeish thought , and murmured as much to Catherine Crane , who laughed . |
| 4 | Dhani gestured to the door through which they had just come and said , ‘ That door then ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When she started to cry they offered to help wipe her eyes and used a piece of soiled paper which they had just picked up . |
| 6 | On the other hand it appears that on occasions drivers may have no memory at all for road signs which they have just seen or for relatively complex manoeuvres which they have only just performed . |
| 7 | From there it was possible to get into the Cathedral only through a large , very heavy door directly opposite the one they had just come through . |
| 8 | I went downstairs and they told me they had just got married . |
| 9 | so on a Sunday I used to say right I 'm not gon na take my tablets today because it 's a waste of a tablet if you 're gon na eat like that , and on a Sunday I used to be absolutely exhausted because you take them all the time and they keep you going and then when you stop taking them they 've just , you wind down |
| 10 | Well no , if you remember they they 've just started now a review of nineteen ninety three 's reorganisation because everything that moved from Newark to West Bridgford has moved back again |
| 11 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 12 | repeating what they 've just said , to show that we 've understood them ; |
| 13 | from what they have just seen |
| 14 | Its mouth was open and it had an expression on its face of someone who is going to have a lot of difficulty explaining what they have just seen , especially to themselves . |
| 15 | 5 When children are asked for free recall of what they have just read , ( advocated by Goodman , 1969 ) , younger children often read a difficult passage fluently , but are unable to tap the different levels of meaning ( see below ) . |