Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I I 've just been talking to me husband about it . |
| 2 | I I 've just been told I 've just been told that our entire switchboard is totally lit up . |
| 3 | The kid gets on his bicycle ; for a few moments he wears the expression of someone who had just been made aware of his own mortality . |
| 4 | Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in . |
| 5 | ‘ That 'd be a clever trick for someone who 's just been blown up . ’ |
| 6 | I frowned like someone who has just been put on the spot and is afraid of making a fool of himself . |
| 7 | This is no time to hesitate , though , for however dazed , withdrawn , emotional , restless , irritable or distant she may seem , she is as urgently in need of help as someone who has just been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 8 | His name is not even mentioned in the manual of literary dates with which I have just been refreshing my memory . |
| 9 | ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring . |
| 10 | Student asks thirty people , how long it had taken them And you draw a frequency table , which you 've just been doing there . |
| 11 | Debbie hesitated , wondering how she could refuse somebody who had just been so helpful ; but she did . |
| 12 | ‘ It could be the killer was somebody who had just been passing by the apartment block . ’ |
| 13 | It 's like offering an elastoplast to somebody who has just been disembowelled . |
| 14 | We will consider the second claim of the clausal hypothesis first , since it relates to some of the findings which we have just been discussing . |
| 15 | In the case which we have just been discussing , that of the common , oppressed people , it is a question of the superego being degraded by alcoholic intoxication to the point where it and the ego can merge ( or , at least where it no longer chastizes the ego ) ; but in the case of the Inca himself we saw that it was a case of a pre-eminent individual whose ego was exalted to the point where it became the ideal ego of the entire civilization . |
| 16 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 17 | From the bunk below him Rod Porter grunted and turned over , as if to resume the peaceful sleep from which he 'd just been disturbed . |
| 18 | But whether an inexperienced schoolboy can be all right after the type of traumatic experience to which he has just been subjected I would not care to say . |
| 19 | Since the student is describing a series of very simple events which he has just been watching , it might be expected that he would produce a highly fluent and error-free description with no hesitations . |
| 20 | When asked what the problem was , her friends told me she had just been assigned to teach in a distant , rural middle school . |
| 21 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 22 | It 's a letter from the Executive Services Officer that states , rule six , which is the one I 've just been talking about on the previous motion , is quite clear in saying that only individual members can pursue appeals and not a branch . |
| 23 | This one you 've just been doing now . |
| 24 | Which is the one we 've just been talking about . |
| 25 | er , this is not of , this is not of the point , in fact it 's on it , it 's a point which I asked you before and er it concerned , I think it 's the same case as the one we 've just been mentioning the , with the commission of objecting to erm appeal procedures on the grounds they are unfair , is that , that 's the same one is n't it ? , let me just perhaps look at it |
| 26 | Is that the one we 've just been doing ? |
| 27 | The letter ( the one we have just been talking about , the one that arrived by post this morning , the one containing Aunt Kitty 's cheque … ) is in the drawer ( the one in the desk , the one in the dressing table upstairs , the one in the kitchen where we always put the post … ) . |
| 28 | ‘ From day one he has just been a super example to everyone — from YTS players to internationals — with his performances in matches and in training . ’ |
| 29 | Far from having run its course , the struggle for the emancipation of the serfs was about to enter an even more heated phase than the one it had just been going through . |
| 30 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |