Example sentences of "[conj] you have just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’ |
| 2 | That 's right they 're all with me , yeah that 's right because you know that you 've just been there or you 're going to be there yourself . |
| 3 | Or indeed the work that you 've just been discussing that we 've all pursued jointly in pinning down the government on the transfer of undertakings directive . |
| 4 | To believe that you have just been incredibly stupid . |
| 5 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |
| 6 | Your back was patted ( not stabbed ) and you 've just been told to invest some company money in some brand new metal . |
| 7 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 8 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 9 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 10 | These are the people to whom , for example , you write if you 've just been appointed liquidator of a company and want to get its VAT payments sorted out . |
| 11 | If you have just been told that your child has HIV , and if this was unexpected news , the shock will be overwhelming at first . |
| 12 | You got another five thousand cos you 've just been |
| 13 | Yeah , yeah but you 've just been and then for us now , cos we 're the parents it 's a bag of shit in it Christmas ? |