Example sentences of "just passed " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , emotional problems are often presented as justification for a person 's drunkenness , especially if they are female , and on one occasion a youth who had been involved in an accident but who had only just passed his driving test was let off with a caution by a policewoman in sympathy for his inexperience . |
| 2 | When I awoke the train had just passed Rannoch Moor . |
| 3 | It was a programme about the ( then ) proposed orbital cities , and even boasted an interview with a very youthful Ewan Famber , who had just passed out from the Tech-Green High College weighed down with honours and acclamations . |
| 4 | As she faced out to sea then turned back to face the land through which she had just passed , her eyes were unseeing ; only the past was visible . |
| 5 | THE QUALITY of British justice has just passed into the stewardship of Mr Kenneth Clarke . |
| 6 | Class 9F No. 92091 on a northbound freight has just passed Kirkby South and begins the descent to Kirkby Bentinck . |
| 7 | Glancing round , I saw I had just passed on the roadside a farm cottage — from which a young woman in an apron , her attention no doubt aroused by the horn , had come running . |
| 8 | An old lady , like that ancient crone who lived in the cottage she had just passed , who had a hairy mole on her chin and squinted hideously . |
| 9 | I was sure I remembered the oil drum we had just passed . |
| 10 | There are , however , a few indications that a header has just passed : |
| 11 | Whether you have just passed your driving test , made your first pot of jam or walked into a room full of strangers , you have been a success . |
| 12 | Sergeant so-and-so has just passed the Inspector 's exams and I 'd like you to take him with you . |
| 13 | ‘ My son has just passed his exams to go to St Francis Xavier . |
| 14 | They have just passed a resolution banning Irish jokes , under the impression that jokes are the enemy of tolerance and affection . |
| 15 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |
| 16 | It seemed reckless to press on , and we had just passed a safe , if inconvenient , landing site . |
| 17 | When she looked up at him the year just passed faded away like an unpleasant dream . |
| 18 | Climbing back into the caravan , he said : ‘ A Jag has just passed . |
| 19 | Consciousness , in Humphrey 's scheme , arises when sensation is made to reverberate within the nervous system , connecting the present to the immediate past : ‘ the conscious present is largely the immediate sensory afterglow of stimuli that have just passed by ’ . |
| 20 | Tanya Lake has just passed PE2 , first time as with all her exams , but says it came as no surprise to her when her audit partner at Chantrey Vellacott told her that her contract would not be renewed . |
| 21 | If you know someone who has just passed a very difficult music exam , for instance , you could celebrate their victory by decorating some of their exam piece with a few pressed flowers before framing it and giving it . |
| 22 | ‘ I suspect a lot of them get carried away and think because they have just passed their test they are great drivers . |
| 23 | Striker ‘ You 've just passed Michael Johnson , ’ screamed the poster . |
| 24 | They were driving up the Harrow Road and had just passed the complex of St Mary 's Hospital when the campanile of St Matthew 's came suddenly into view on their left . |
| 25 | In fact it was only a minute or so from the M27 and we had just passed over the Queen Elizabeth Bridge at Dartford . |
| 26 | Hubbub , shoving and ten good ideas before breakfast — the character , in short , of the 100 days that have just passed — need to give way to something different in the 1,361 that are left . |
| 27 | Legislators have only just passed the 1993 budget , and they will not appreciate having to rearrange the billions in pork they packed into it . |
| 28 | Having set out to demonstrate how , through its understanding of the structure of history , Marxism was in a position to forecast the future , he came to the conclusion that there was no guarantee that history could promise anything better that what had just passed . |
| 29 | I 've just passed my A levels I 've got loads of papers going what can I do . |
| 30 | They crossed the road to face the oncoming traffic and had just passed a 40 mph speed limit sign when he looked over his shoulder and saw a car heading towards them on the wrong side of the road . |