Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] have just " in BNC.
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1 | The lessons on the causes and remedies of worry were most beneficial and the psychology of using your mind in order to create a change in the body , which came through in most of the classes , helped to reduce the constant tensions in my mind , with the result that I am a much less tense person and a lot of my worries have just vanished . |
2 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
3 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
4 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
5 | Their roles have just evolved . |
6 | While firms wait for their luck to turn , investors are doing their best to ignore both the horrible results which companies have just begun to announce for last year and the recent sharp decline in bond prices . |
7 | They become disillusioned when they realise that their parents have just as many faults as everyone else . |
8 | ORGANISERS of a service aimed at reuniting lost pets with their owners have just celebrated the group 's first anniversary . |
9 | Her clothes had just melted away . |
10 | In a way Mark was too close to home , too much a part of the world whose foundations had just been rocked , yet somehow on the outside . |
11 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
12 | Each subsample will include women whose children have just reached this stage , women approaching statutory retirement age and women half way between these two points in their lives . |
13 | The council 's plan to replace their Saturday shift with a standby system has infuriated the men whose bosses have just been given a big pay rise . |
14 | Many gins later , his guests had just come to the end of the petits fours when Wullie Robertson turned up , forcing his way into La Noblesse , looking like the wrath of God , or the son of some Pictish chieftain , and demanding , ‘ Hyacinth ! |
15 | The price of oil was tumbling again , one of his most reliable brokers on Wall Street had just been arrested for insider dealing , the acquisition of a highly prestigious London hotel had been held up by a query as to who actually owned it and , back home , one of his sisters had just committed suicide , causing a tremor of scandal throughout the country . |
16 | His holidays had just begun , and it suited Juliet 's book to let Patrick have him . |
17 | He recently ate a piece of cheese when his hands had just touched his shoes — and I later found out he had stood in some dog dirt . |
18 | Ian Franchi , of Britain 's Open University , and his colleagues have just spent three weeks on crampons and skidoos , combing the ice sheet for these itinerant boulders . |
19 | It is hardly encouraging that Terrace himself , whose book Nim ( 1980 ) is regarded as a classic in the field , after an exhaustive analysis of filmic evidence concluded that only a very small proportion of Nim 's gestures , in both training and free living , could reasonably be thought to have been initiated by the animal ; the vast majority were repetitions of what humans had just signed or , to a lesser extent , merely random . |
20 | And then Ida 's rung to say that er our buyers have just rung him to say they 've a , got the cash , agreed and its all sorted out . |
21 | ‘ I think one of your servants has just died . |