Example sentences of "[noun sg] have just [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOUR computer has just broken down . |
| 2 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 3 | Since the formation of the BWG and the LGWG , the administrative workers and the volunteers have set up their own autonomous groups , and Disabled Action has just taken off . |
| 4 | THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests . |
| 5 | ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of . |
| 6 | Gloria closed the sliding door , pulled down the blinds , and switched off the six lamps which Dot had just put on . |
| 7 | We catch up with Sue , a 52-year-old mother of four — wearing pigtails and painted-on freckles — whose divorce has just come through . |
| 8 | There 's a very interesting issue has just come up actually 'cause we 're having this fashion show . |
| 9 | The sun has just gone down . |
| 10 | Think of the mother whose child has just fallen over and grazed his knee — what does she do ? |
| 11 | There is draft er , legislation , a draft circular has just come out , which makes quite clear beyond any doubt that we are required to treat the inspection of our facilities exactly the same way as the independent sector . |
| 12 | She said , " Mary , a girl has just turned up here , she 's desperate ; she 's in Shaftwood Hotel , you know |
| 13 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 14 | Quickly she read the article , then handed the paper to Fred , wondering why she felt as though the bottom had just fallen out of her world . |
| 15 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 16 | THE FIRST controlled tests on humans of a vaccine against leprosy have just begun in , of all places , Norway . |
| 17 | The work 's just dried up ) |
| 18 | I know my sister 's mortgage has just gone down . |
| 19 | Our business has just gone down and down , and now demand has run out . |
| 20 | And erm I 've found out in , in our area in South Bank , the local hardware shop has just shut down . |
| 21 | After all this is the woman whose husband has just run off with Felicity Kendal . |
| 22 | The job had just kicked off so the blokes used to just the phone inside you know if they wanted . |
| 23 | The South African war had just broken out and I had received my embarkation orders . |
| 24 | without asking , it comes up on the er have er , I 'll ask her first hello it 's the G P G engineer love , yeah , er my pager 's just gone off , is it okay to use my telephone just to answer it please ? |
| 25 | Well the new edition 's just come out and it 's in the shops shortly , it 's priced sixty five pounds , and as usual they 've let Radio Oxford have a copy to give away as a prize . |
| 26 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 27 | WHAT promises to be a good video has just come out — but do n't go to your local hire shop for a copy as it 's a BNFL production . |
| 28 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
| 29 | Owen reached out his hand for the coffee a bearer had just brought in . |
| 30 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |