Example sentences of "[pron] have just [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 She said I ca n't I 've just had a sleeping tablet .
2 Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand …
3 So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on .
4 Clouds were moving across the far north-west of the landscape as I got to the cave , and I 'd just reached the mouth when the first drops of rain spattered on the stones at my feet .
5 Probably , I do n't know actually it 's really weird it keeps going it went once and I was playing hockey , it was really embarrassing I 'd just played the ball
6 I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock .
7 And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months …
8 ‘ I 'd just left the Royal Academy , I 'd just got the results of my finals .
9 and I 'd just peeled an orange to be honest
10 She was n't worried about her wardrobe in comparison to me having landed on the on the road , which I thought was extremely good considering that she I 'd just demolished a nice piece of her f er a piece of her furniture .
11 I 'd just approached a woman ( who , it emerged , could speak only Mandarin ) , to ask her about the joys of cycling .
12 It was reasonable enough , but I 'd just signed a new contract with the company .
13 I 'd just left the Royal Academy , I 'd just got the results of my finals .
14 " It 's as if I 'd just taken a photograph . "
15 ‘ When I bought this hat , I 'd just had a horrible haircut so it covered up the mistake nicely . ’
16 I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a big smile on my face , feeling really pleased with myself , thinking that I 'd just had a wet dream .
17 Though I 'd just had the official report , I wanted the inside story .
18 I 'd just had an idea for a way of doing Lear and it had brought me luck .
19 I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines .
20 When I had just erected the tent , Paddy laid aside his empty plate , strolled over , opened a locker and , with an expression of humorous disgust , peered inside and said , ‘ What d' you keep in there ?
21 I had just reached the age where such things were becoming of interest to me , and it was n't too long after the Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth when my sister and I had collected as many photos as we could lay our hands on . ’
22 Although surgery was a mutilation , and I had just lost a kidney , that seemed nothing compared with the loss of a beautiful head of hair .
23 But I wish I had just stayed a worker ,
24 Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard .
25 ( I must tell here the story of a charming American lady who approached me when I had just given a talk on regression therapy .
26 Ben and I had just given a recital in Vienna .
27 Feeling as if I had just won a gold medal , I ran home , carefully examined my treasure to find that the ‘ bone ’ handle was only painted tin .
28 He looked down at me as if he were a giant and I had just climbed a beanstalk .
29 I had just left the shelter of my brolly as a pout started to rattle my rod tip when a 5 oz sinker ripped a hole through my brolly .
30 I had just left the managing director at a site meeting in Middlesex at around 6.30 one evening when the carphone rang .
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