Example sentences of "just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 2 | She settled down to my right where Steve had just been sitting . |
| 3 | My plan was shattered — my whole life had just been shattered . |
| 4 | ‘ Funnily enough , that 's been one of the nice things about Harwich : people have n't overburdened everything with all my troubles and they 've just been themselves . |
| 5 | It 's only just been finished but the plan is to have four people living there — three clients or whatever and one person sponsored by us , probably a member of staff . |
| 6 | Eventually I was able to convince my senior officers that anthropology was one of the social sciences , perhaps only because I somewhat sardonically returned a memo which asked ‘ why , if anthropology is not approved , have I just been allowed to read the subject on a Bramshill Scholarship , on full pay and allowances ? ’ |
| 7 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 8 | When Eleanor left , the Statue of Liberty had just been unveiled in New York harbour . |
| 9 | Age Concern England 's briefing paper , Pensioner organisations in England , has just been revised . |
| 10 | The sentences must have a rise and full , an ability to flow onwards with pauses for breath , like full stops , or a moment 's silence for the onlookers to assess what has just been stated and to understand its purpose and place in the design before the dance continues . |
| 11 | My youngest girl has just been operated on and I could n't believe she only had two stitches . |
| 12 | I feel an opting-out system would be probably less distressing to the donor 's relatives ( who may find an approach for donation insensitive when they have just been told of an — often — unexpected death ) . |
| 13 | Inside the man-made cavern , located 100ft up the side of a cliff , an archaeological survey team found a hastily-written message recording that ‘ Joezer ( the priest ) has just been killed ( or wounded ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 15 | Her latest book The Truth about Lorin Jones ( Abacus , £3.99 ) has just been published in paperback . |
| 16 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 17 | She invites me into the living room , pours me a coffee , sits down beside me , slips her shoes off and groans about the working day she has just been through . |
| 18 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’ |
| 20 | A group of people have just been arrested by the railway Cheka for trying to travel without tickets , yet our peasant notes how the wife of a Roslavl' party member flourishes an authorization for a free pass typed out on a Tsarist form . |
| 21 | A new document concerning the future of open spaces in London has just been published . |
| 22 | The others have just been a job . |
| 23 | The emphasis at this committee is on records which have just been released , or which are about to be released . |
| 24 | CBS Records were inside holding their annual international conference , and Elvis stood in the street performing a selection of his songs using a small portable amplifier , just as his debut single ‘ Less Than Zero ’ has just been released . |
| 25 | Papillon has just been recaptured for the fourth time . |
| 26 | By coincidence , a manager who spoke good French and understood the French market place had just been recruited . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 28 | We was in this railway station and Marie had just been to the dentist . |
| 29 | The usefulness of gentle exercise in the morning to help warm us up has just been mentioned . |
| 30 | They develop a weak sleep/wake rhythm in the absence of external time cues , the implication of which has just been discussed . |