Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’ |
| 3 | However , the conception we have just been briefly outlining came up against a number of philosophical difficulties . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | A TEENAGER and three of his pals died when he crashed the car he had just been given as a present . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Any illustrations for the scene we 've just been doing and the things we 've already been talking about , or any new ideas . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a pity it 's just been a year . |
| 9 | So I ignore the directive I have just been given , and head straight back to London . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Is the person I 've just been , an ego in my head . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Catching a fleeting expression on Lucy 's face , she persisted with ominous calm , ‘ This would n't be the Guy Sterne whose name we 've just been dutifully worshipping at the board meeting , by any chance ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have a feeling I 've just been conned , Father . |
| 16 | She is simply an older version of the woman you have just been talking to , and so the farce goes into Round Two with defeat for the customer the only possible outcome . |
| 17 | If Albany speaks , it suggests an attempt to reassert authority he has just been trying to give away ( as Gurr proposes about as upbeat a close as leaving Denmark in Fortinbras 's control ) . |
| 18 | The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was also standing as the man behind the desk read the slip of paper he had just been handed . |
| 19 | Behind him the door of the house whose occupant he had just been interviewing had been dosed with considerable firmness . |
| 20 | Sir I 've just been recording you . |
| 21 | Hello my love we 've just been talking about you . |
| 22 | Lips tight , fists clenched , eyes narrow , breath held , back straight , stomach in , chest out , shoulders back , Steven Grout stamped away from the depot he had just been fired from , away from their stupid job and those awful people . |
| 23 | In a radio broadcast on 1 October 1936 , the day he was officially invested as Head of State , Franco hinted at how he envisaged the organization of the as yet non-existent state of whose equally non-existent government he had just been made leader . |
| 24 | P.S. I 've just been informed it 's arrived . |
| 25 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 26 | Oh well I 'll keep the insurance company er I w er we will send them a little note in that case , saying look , you know , this is the case , it appears to be an innocent lesion she 's just been finely checked over on the eighth of October , do you feel you can now proceed ? |
| 27 | She was still trying to take in the information she had just been given . |
| 28 | Lots of fiery meetings and grand gestures , plenty of petitions to Washington and protests outside John Wayne movies , but in the end they had just been a bunch of dumb redskins battering their heads against the white man 's bricks . |
| 29 | On hearing the doorbell , the Commander 's reaction was affected by the events of the day and the matter they had just been so emotionally discussing : irrationally , he believed he was being visited by the police . |
| 30 | He drank , and then began to think how he could use the information he 'd just been given . |