Example sentences of "[noun] have just [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOUR computer has just broken down . |
| 2 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 3 | Mr Pacey has just taken over as head of the National Criminal Intelligence Service . |
| 4 | And Kode has just set up a new marketing company , Kamtronics , to sell all high-volume printed circuit boards made in the Far East to the UK and Europe . |
| 5 | Since the formation of the BWG and the LGWG , the administrative workers and the volunteers have set up their own autonomous groups , and Disabled Action has just taken off . |
| 6 | THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests . |
| 7 | ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of . |
| 8 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 9 | She had n't meant to ask , the words had just slipped out . |
| 10 | Niklaus had just swarmed up Resurrection , taking a bit of a flyer in the process , being into the British way of things , and was obviously having a great day out . |
| 11 | The two-seater Chipmunk aircraft had just taken off when it unexpectedly veered sharpley back towards the runway . |
| 12 | Gloria closed the sliding door , pulled down the blinds , and switched off the six lamps which Dot had just put on . |
| 13 | No and Sue 's just gone off sick , yeah . |
| 14 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 15 | About half a dozen big black cars have just pulled up outside . ’ |
| 16 | Also tonight , Celtic 's UEFA Cup opponents Sporting Lisbon have just touched down in Glasgow to begin preparations for their UEFA Cup tie at Parkhead . |
| 17 | The goals have just dried up . |
| 18 | Jeff 's just come in . |
| 19 | We catch up with Sue , a 52-year-old mother of four — wearing pigtails and painted-on freckles — whose divorce has just come through . |
| 20 | There 's a very interesting issue has just come up actually 'cause we 're having this fashion show . |
| 21 | The sun has just gone down . |
| 22 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
| 23 | Think of the mother whose child has just fallen over and grazed his knee — what does she do ? |
| 24 | There is draft er , legislation , a draft circular has just come out , which makes quite clear beyond any doubt that we are required to treat the inspection of our facilities exactly the same way as the independent sector . |
| 25 | She said , " Mary , a girl has just turned up here , she 's desperate ; she 's in Shaftwood Hotel , you know |
| 26 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 27 | Quickly she read the article , then handed the paper to Fred , wondering why she felt as though the bottom had just fallen out of her world . |
| 28 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 29 | Alan 's just gone out there actually Bryn to have a look . |
| 30 | THE FIRST controlled tests on humans of a vaccine against leprosy have just begun in , of all places , Norway . |