Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some affirmative uses give a slightly different impression from that of being able to assert the occurrence of an event because of its having been perceived — a suggestion that there is a difference between what perception would lead one to think and the way things really are : ( 85 ) Once again the direction in which something is seen to move might depend upon the ratios of firing in cells sensitive to movement in different directions , and after prolonged movement in one direction a stationary image would produce less firing in the cell which had just been stimulated more than normally , hence apparent movement in the opposite direction would be seen to occur . |
| 2 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 3 | ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’ |
| 4 | However , the conception we have just been briefly outlining came up against a number of philosophical difficulties . |
| 5 | somebody came to settle up bang and he was playing thinking he 'd just been wounded and in fact he 'd been shot and killed , poor chap |
| 6 | A TEENAGER and three of his pals died when he crashed the car he had just been given as a present . |
| 7 | In the event , the letter to Anselm containing the passionate phrases condemning lay investiture which have just been quoted , had no effect on the subsequent negotiations . |
| 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 | Viewer , the add-in that lets you see the contents of files still on disk , has been improved and now allows the import of ASCII text and now lets you save the current worksheet and retrieve a new file in a single command — so reducing the risk of +:F7 you loosing the work you had just been doing before using it ! |
| 10 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The child who has just been away from the room has to guess who is the murderer . |
| 13 | A couple of hours after drafting this , I receive a call from a local health visitor asking advice about a child who has just been diagnosed . |
| 14 | Ms Achtenberg is an avowed lesbian who has just been confirmed as an assistant secretary in the department of Housing and Urban Development . |
| 15 | Any illustrations for the scene we 've just been doing and the things we 've already been talking about , or any new ideas . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a pity it 's just been a year . |
| 17 | Robert Burke , a Hartley regular , is Bill McCabe , a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl . |
| 18 | So I ignore the directive I have just been given , and head straight back to London . |
| 19 | Erm it comes back to the point which has just been made about the er , about the erm why have this system of election by thirds and almost backfired on , on , on , on the leader of the council yeah ? |
| 20 | The process which has just been described is clearly a very complex affair , but most of the decisions involved in it are programmable types of decisions . |
| 21 | Other infantrymen were irked by the impersonal casualness with which the heavy gunners crews emerged from their comfortable shelters to fire at targets they could not see , ‘ appearing to be much less concerned than about the soup or the bucket of wine which had just been brought ’ |
| 22 | When Creed called , Jed was watching a news report about a vulture who 'd just been arrested on a murder charge . |
| 23 | We are sure this end that the Pikes would n't be a party to exporting the virus to ( or in even the slightest way aiding ) the place you 've just been . |
| 24 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 25 | People ring up about the match they 've just been to and complain or say who they think should be the next England manager , etc . |
| 26 | Is the person I 've just been , an ego in my head . |
| 27 | The graveyard wall itself has just been spray-painted — the colour is barely dry on a five-foot-high blue swastika , and the artists have not taken time to dot the i's on the words DEAD YIDS INSIDE . |
| 28 | ‘ The look on your face was like a naughty schoolgirl who 'd just been caught with a stolen pie . |
| 29 | She invites me into the living room , pours me a coffee , sits down beside me , slips her shoes off and groans about the working day she has just been through . |
| 30 | Now before Neil starts panicking and worrying about that , bear in mind that that is spread over the whole spectrum of operations , including things like heart transplants and the like , and also , for example , an elderly person who 's just been smashed up by er Astra G T E |