Example sentences of "[pron] have just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 2 | I have just been watching on television the final scenes from the Royal Shakespeare Company 's performance of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 3 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |
| 4 | I have just been dreadfully belaboured in the London Magazine . |
| 5 | ‘ Then perhaps you should take what I have just been saying even more seriously . |
| 6 | ‘ But I have just been to America , where England will play a big tournament next summer against the US , Brazil and Germany . |
| 7 | Indeed , as I write this , I have just been watching on television Lord Denning declaring with self-satisfaction that he puts all such letters straight into the wastepaper basket . |
| 8 | But since the end of that relationship , I have just been very clear — or attempted to be — about what I am going to do sexually and what I am not . |
| 9 | ‘ As I have just been telling your nurse , I 'm having trouble listening to a chest . |
| 10 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 11 | His name is not even mentioned in the manual of literary dates with which I have just been refreshing my memory . |
| 12 | As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound . |
| 13 | ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring . |
| 14 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 15 | Mark and I have just been for a walk beyond Dalseattie , which was nice until the mist came down and began to make us rather damp . |
| 16 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 17 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 18 | POSTSCRIPT : As I write I have just been handed a newspaper and I see that at the Court of Appeal in London on April 30th , the following transpired ‘ Trade Unions scored a notable victory in their fight to maintain collective bargaining yesterday when the Court of Appeal said employers had no right to discriminate against workers who refused to sign personal contracts ’ . |
| 19 | So I ignore the directive I have just been given , and head straight back to London . |
| 20 | I have just been to get tickets for the Arsenal game . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I have just been elected chairman again for this year I am very much involved with the society so it just makes sense really . ’ |
| 23 | I have just been on an inter-personal skills workshop so I knew what to do . |
| 24 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 25 | The emphasis at this committee is on records which have just been released , or which are about to be released . |
| 26 | The shelter sees many dogs which have just been dumped on Dartmoor — a favourite spot for ‘ losing ’ pets , as the wilderness has few witnesses . |
| 27 | In the event , the letter to Anselm containing the passionate phrases condemning lay investiture which have just been quoted , had no effect on the subsequent negotiations . |
| 28 | Yet such is the burden of bad debts that their final results for the fiscal year to March , which have just been announced , are dismal . |
| 29 | The budgets which have just been prepared show that we are aiming to do even better in 1991 and the managing director 's reports on page 2 endorse this optimistic approach . |
| 30 | The psychological developments which have just been discussed were the consequences of a traumatic loss , that of the primal mother , and were responses to it . |