Example sentences of "[conj] she have just [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 She wore riding clothes and her long dark hair hung loose where she had just unfastened it .
2 She will be accompanied on the year-long exercise by colleagues from Bristol University , where she has just completed her final examination for a zoology degree .
3 They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives .
4 I could tell by her voice that she had just said something which she believed , and I was surprised , because I had somehow thought her too clever really to believe anything .
5 Without giving her name , she supplied them with Veronica 's address , and the information that she had just seen two men acting suspiciously in the garden .
6 Frau Gess telephoned very early in the morning to say that she had just called the doctor .
7 ‘ Little did she know that she had just landed one of the world 's greatest exponents of ‘ leap before you look ’ as a buyer , or she 'd probably have persuaded you to buy London Bridge and a stake in a Peruvian gold-mine at the same time . ’
8 My mum came in at about 07.15 , holding out my black suit and a white shirt that she had just ironed .
9 Some hours after the alleged attack , Sharon McLean ran out of the Peace Gardens in Holt Street , near Wrexham police station , and pretended that she had just discovered the body , the jury was told .
10 Until , in the end , Carrie began to think she must have made it all up , that she had just dreamed all those things he had said .
11 How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily .
12 It coincided with the news that she had just signed a new one year shoe contract with the company as part of its ongoing support for British tennis .
13 She knew what he was looking at — the pile of birthday cards on the kitchen table , and the letter that she had just started to rip open when he had first thumped on her door .
14 Then she looked behind her and saw a carriage coming up the same hill that she had just climbed , with a man leading the horse .
15 His most touching moment came after Dreamflight a couple of years ago when he was asked to rush to the bedside of a leukaemia victim who wanted to see the photos of the trip that she had just enjoyed so much .
16 ‘ No ! ’ the Doctor said , and at the same time Bernice was trying to remember exactly when she had had the conversation that she had just remembered so clearly .
17 She arrived one day in the clinic in the peak of health and triumphantly announced that she had just got married and was setting out to live in Palm Springs with her husband .
18 When Leo made some small movement , she was suddenly brought back to the present and became mortifyingly aware that she had just emptied her heart to a virtual stranger .
19 She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute .
20 In the end I went to the police and found that she 'd just reported that he was missing . ’
21 Alina was holding onto the door , because the six steps that she 'd taken to reach it had almost been enough to exhaust her ; Belov dusted off his hands and came over to her now , and he took her by the shoulders and turned her around and steered her back toward the bed that she 'd just left .
22 She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid .
23 ‘ But it is possible that she has just decided to leave the area . ’
24 Is my hon. Friend aware that she has just scored a marvellous bull 's eye ?
25 Would Mrs agree that the resources argument that she 's just used is completely fallacious and would she not accept er that it 's better to spend fifty thousand pounds
26 she feels that the whole thing needs rationalizing and that she 's just come , co come to the pi the point where she can rationalize everything for once in her life .
27 At a conservative estimate they had cost considerably more than she had just paid for her night 's lodging .
28 She 's not , she 's not well so she 's just come again .
29 Cos I w he was , he was in the Post Office one day and he saw this old woman and she 'd just cashed all her giros and this bloke just nicked it in the Post Office .
30 And she 'd just turned eighteen .
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