Example sentences of "[Wh det] they have just " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Dhani gestured to the door through which they had just come and said , ‘ That door then ? ’
3 ‘ 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 .
4 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 .
5 repeating what they 've just said , to show that we 've understood them ;
6 from what they have just seen
7 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 .
8 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 ) .
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