Example sentences of "just discovered " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have just discovered that this column is 75 per cent owned by a Japanese company . |
| 2 | Dalglish wore the demeanour of a man who had just discovered the cat had been sick in his slippers . |
| 3 | In practice , it can be a giant headache , as both the Justice Department in Washington and the Exxon oil company have just discovered . |
| 4 | Apart from qualifying for Pseuds Corner in Private Eye and avoiding the use of plain English , what Rumbold was trying to say was that British youth had just discovered trainers in the late Eighties . |
| 5 | In 386 Ambrose moved relics he had just discovered in a Milan suburb to one of the new churches he had built to ring the growing city with prestigious sanctuaries ; it was a well thought out act . |
| 6 | Here we had a feature on isolating the gene which causes nagging , another on the gender politics of public lavatories , and a report from Paris on giveaway days at the great houses of couture before coming to a ‘ just discovered ’ fragment of early Jane Austen . |
| 7 | Pugwash 's creator , John Ryan , has just discovered that Edmondson is still alive , tending a cemetery in Rothbury . |
| 8 | Another pressing reason for leaving was that Jeanne Hébuterne had just discovered that she was pregnant and she had confessed as much to her mother . |
| 9 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 10 | ‘ My God , ’ she said , sounding a bit like a vicar who has just discovered the Third World , ‘ this makes one 's own problems seem pretty small , does n't it ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Have you only just discovered that ? ’ |
| 12 | He 'd just discovered Rocky Roads . |
| 13 | I 've had my rib transfer carriage about nine years and I 've only just discovered that ! |
| 14 | US scientists have just discovered that the gas , nitric oxide , is produced in the main nerve of the penis , where it triggers the blood flow which causes an erection . |
| 15 | In ‘ The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth ’ Tídwald says reprovingly to Torhthelm — who has just discovered his master 's headless body : |
| 16 | Each character is musically differentiated : the countess has two magnificently melancholic arias in which she laments the loss of her husband 's affection ; the count is portrayed as arrogant , cynical and menacing ; Figaro and Susanna are quick-witted , likeable , scheming and intelligent , able to give as good as they get , but both capable as well of jealousy and emotional suffering ; Cherubino is a confused adolescent who has just discovered sex but does n't know what to do with it . |
| 17 | I decided to specialise in patio pot plants but nothing thrived , and I 've just discovered that woodlice have invaded the pots and even eaten away the linings of wall baskets . |
| 18 | That 's what you 've just discovered . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | You look like a kid who 's just discovered Father Christmas does n't exist . ’ |
| 21 | 6 You 've just discovered an animal new to science . |
| 22 | Sixteen-year-old Sara Freeman liked to spend Saturday afternoon shopping and had just discovered the new shop in Fulham Road . |
| 23 | Whatever he was up to , whatever his intentions towards her , at least she 'd just discovered something about her feelings towards him . |
| 24 | That was a word he had just discovered . |
| 25 | as if they 'd just discovered immortality to be |
| 26 | ‘ You quibble about names , and I 've just discovered that my father was once called Antonio Corosini ! ’ she cried bitterly . |
| 27 | I have just discovered that Gaveston was probably poisoning the Lady Eleanor with a slow but subtle potion . ’ |
| 28 | You had no right to be ashamed of me , and I knew that all along , remember , even if you 've only just discovered it , so I did n't see why I should pander to your wish to keep our affair a secret , ’ she confessed defiantly . |
| 29 | ‘ No , ’ she denied numbly , a hectic flush along her cheekbones , because she had just discovered that she also needed a man she could fight with , cross swords with . |
| 30 | I had just discovered boredom , and it was magic to me . |