Example sentences of "[verb] just [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if he 's left alone for a minute it feels like an hour to him , he can not remember what has just been said to him , therefore he will repeat himself endlessly , and he has no frame of references to enable him to take part in any kind of conversation . |
| 2 | From the children 's point of view , what they really want to get out of a project is precisely the content which , for teachers , has just been relegated to a secondary position . |
| 3 | And that that guy has just been transferred to another group so you know we 're now one short well in fact we 're three or four short up in Scotland so . |
| 4 | SHARON SHANNON , whose debut solo album has just been released to great critical acclaim , embarks on an extensive Irish tour in November . |
| 5 | The stationary state has just been taken to be one in which population is stationary . |
| 6 | Buckingham Palace has just been opened to the public , and several hundred people , ready to fork out the £8 ( $12.50 ) admission charge , wait patiently . |
| 7 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 8 | So it will help to keep your Bible open at the passage which has just been read to us , from the ninth chapter of the gospel according to Matthew . |
| 9 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 10 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 11 | " Take the Tran family over there who 've just been introduced to your father , for instance . |
| 12 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 13 | From 1966 to 1969 he was a fellow of Balliol College , Oxford , and had just been appointed to a readership at the time of his death . |
| 14 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 15 | Lady Elizabeth Campbell , sixteen , gentle , interested in poetry , cuddly , was discussing the matter of her marriage , which had just been broken to her at dinner by her father , Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , King James the Fourth 's Lieutenant of the Isles , chief of Clan Diarmaid ; and her teeth , which were indeed passable , were much in evidence . |
| 16 | He was giving me 40 minutes on all matters transport and 10 had just been forfeited to the interests of the constituents of Derbyshire . |
| 17 | The fact was that his own heart had grown irresistibly fond of the love of his life , Senora Isabel-Maria Estanguet de Moss , whose husband had just been posted to the Argentinian Embassy in Brussels . |
| 18 | On 27th May 1854 while the Board of Guardians was in session a message was passed in to say that two persons from St. Cuthbert with smallpox had just been brought to the workhouse . |
| 19 | Here there had been a marriage three days before , and the bride had just been brought to her new house that morning . |
| 20 | It was no accident that when I was writing this , the Conservatives had just been returned to power in the 1983 election , and one of their first moves was to try to disguise popular discontent with the police by the restoration of the rope . |
| 21 | Second was the husband of Mrs Chapple ; Mrs Chapple had just been admitted to hospital and seemed unlikely to return home : |
| 22 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 23 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 24 | The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount . |
| 25 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 26 | For example , we want to be able to take knowledge gained from studying the free recall of nonsense syllables and make predictions about our ability to remember things like telephone numbers , or the names of people we have just been introduced to at parties . |
| 27 | Do they do this purposely cos that man 's just been sent to prison the same thing is n't it ? |
| 28 | One 's just been handed to me here , Christine from Derby says I 've kept cats for twenty years and taught them loads of tricks . |