Example sentences of "[vb -s] just [verb] [that] " in BNC.

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1 ( In Germany the supreme court has just decided that pregnant women may lie about the pregnancy to an employer . )
2 He has just heard that Pringle 's is not reordering , and has phoned to inquire the reason .
3 Souness has just heard that the SFA have banned him from sitting at the touchline for the remainder of the season , and yet again the tabloid press has pushed his tolerance beyond the limit .
4 A friend has just heard that they did n't get the job that they applied for .
5 Editor George McHugh has just heard that his refulgent masterwork has been named the North-East 's best non-league programme , a point ahead of Northern League Chester-le-Street in the Wirral Programme Club 's annual survey .
6 Jesus has just stated that he had to go through great suffering ; to be rejected by the Jewish leaders ; and to be put to death and to rise again .
7 The town of Bolton has just announced that it is to make its football hero , Nat Lofthouse , a freeman of the borough .
8 Mitsui OSK , Japan 's second-largest shipping company , has just announced that it is to close its tokkin accounts ( short-term stockmarket-punting money ) to help pay for its capital spending .
9 Moran knows a bit about markets : he has a personal fortune estimated at £150 million , and he has just announced that he intends to spend £25 million converting a remnant of medieval London into a sumptuous family home .
10 ‘ Ms Redd Harvest of the Turner-Harvest-Ramirez Agency has just announced that the suspect apprehended in Nome , Alaska , last week in connection with the thirty-eight-state murder spree of the serial killer known as ‘ The Tasmanian Devil ’ has been definitely connected with four hundred and eighteen of the Devil 's six hundred and forty-two confirmed kills to date .
11 Nigeria has just announced that it will not lift its generous petrol subsidy in June , as it had promised the IMF , out of fear that petrol riots would disrupt the presidential elections due to be held that month .
12 But the government has just announced that this staff concerned with employment advice will move back into the Department of Employment , to ensure that their work is more integrated with that of the staff paying benefits to the unemployed .
13 The Government has just announced that pensioners with savings of £16,000 or under will be eligible for rebates .
14 The hon. Gentleman knows that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has just announced that our plans for defence expenditure involve a cut of 6 per cent .
15 A 1989 report from Washington , DC has just revealed that up to 23 per cent of young African-American men between the ages of 20 and 29 are under some kind of penal supervision .
16 Pugwash 's creator , John Ryan , has just discovered that Edmondson is still alive , tending a cemetery in Rothbury .
17 A might still suspect B of having stolen something from him elsewhere ( e.g. if he has just discovered that a bunch of keys is missing from the hall table ) .
18 He has just seen that the ultimate aim of the caseworker must not be to casework at all , but to get his cases to face up to caseworking themselves .
19 ‘ That new fuel blend of yours has just ensured that I 've had the most embarrassing drive of my life !
20 The Court of Appeal has just ruled that councils that trade on the money markets with rate payers ' cash , are acting legally .
21 Who has just declared that they will save the Colosseum ?
22 These include the Certosa of Pavia , the entire historic centre of Orvieto , the Roman theatre in Verona , the whole of Venice ( the news has just arrived that the cupola of the Salute church is giving way ) and the buildings on the islands in the lagoon , and the Giotto frescoes in the Scrovegni chapel in Padua .
23 Is the Minister aware that he has just admitted that under this Government there has been a trade-off between income tax cuts and increases in VAT ?
24 They are watching the young mother 's two-year-old son chasing ducks and the mother-in-law has just remarked that her son , the child 's father , was rather backward at this age .
25 Lets just hope that Frank gets picked for Norway .
26 Yes , Chair , I , I mean I support the criteria that 's been laid out in five two there , I think it 's very important that we do actually , important that we do actually highlight the issue of low pay , and where it 's occurring , and in , in some way that then prevents companies , the , the unscrupulous type of companies that would come in to exploit that , from actually doing it , since most people would then be aware it , and I think that the last speaker 's just suggested that it 's an extremely cheap way of obtaining masses of information about Shropshire 's erm , earnings levels , and I think that 's very important that we are , and do come to grips with that , and clearly could n't afford officer time to be spent on , on merely collating that all the time .
27 Yes , Tony 's just dropped that on me
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