Example sentences of "[noun] have just [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leith 's just been telling me that you both work for the same firm , ’ he put on a front for the rest of the world to joke . |
| 2 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 3 | Mr Wolfe had just been doing his customary job of explaining to the passengers why we were late : ‘ We have an emergency situation which is not a real alarm situation . ’ |
| 4 | The effect of Dr McNab 's arguments was by no means as overwhelming as might be supposed ; with the best will in the world and in ideal circumstances it is next to impossible to escape cerebral indigestion as someone quotes comparative figures as fluently as Dr McNab had just been doing . |
| 5 | Well I 'll be going up to watch that match that Hugh 's just been talking about . |
| 6 | Well I 'm certain that if you looked at every post in the City we could certainly save one or two , I do n't think anyone would deny that , but the sort of cases that Queenie 's just been talking about , I think she 's talking absolute nonsense . |
| 7 | Above : Piment tries some berries that her mother Poupee has just been eating . |
| 8 | Geoffrey 's just been telling me all about it . |
| 9 | Anyway , Robin 's just been poking around and he 's come up with a can of Mr Shen , the noo . |
| 10 | Anyway , Robin 's just been poking around and he 's come up with a can of Mr Shen , the noo . |
| 11 | Many firms have just been hanging on . |
| 12 | Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth . |
| 13 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 14 | She settled down to my right where Steve had just been sitting . |
| 15 | Y-you … ’ she spluttered , and , loving him , found it absolutely beyond belief that he should believe that she and his cousin had just been having a fine old time . |
| 16 | Well another question — it 's been put several times on this programme — it 's something like this — Councillors have just been considering cuts in budgets that will affect the voters . |
| 17 | The West had just been sending gold straight to Stalin 's coffers . ’ |
| 18 | Their companion cast them exactly the sort of curious glance Isabel had just been anticipating . |
| 19 | ‘ Feargal has just been telling me how you helped out this morning , and your idea of putting pictures on the menus . |
| 20 | British Rail have n't had anything at all to report to us , and the local bus company 's just been telling us that things are running fine . |
| 21 | Some kind soul had just been keeping the garden under reasonable control — that was all . |