Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had taken off her coat , somehow contrived to make herself seem a little dishevelled , as though the two of them had just been snogging on the sofa or something . |
| 2 | And three of them had just been whipped from under me . |
| 3 | Then Pike , or Pike 's body anyway , fiopped all over Quigley as if the two of them had just been exchanging bodily fiuids . |
| 4 | Scarlet could not now imagine how she had passed the week with the house next door empty and soulless : she tidied the kitchen in readiness for her friend 's return and sat down to read the local paper , two copies of which had just been delivered through the letterbox . |
| 5 | They develop a weak sleep/wake rhythm in the absence of external time cues , the implication of which has just been discussed . |
| 6 | The people least likely to be able to find £24–95 to buy the first set of reports on science teaching from the Assessment Performance Unit ( APU ) of the Department of Education and science * , the latest volume of which has just been published . |
| 7 | The people least likely to be able to find £24–95 to buy the first set of reports on science teaching from the Assessment Performance Unit ( APU ) of the Department of Education and science * , the latest volume of which has just been published . |
| 8 | ‘ It sounds like a convenient arrangement , ’ Luke commented urbanely , and Maria saw his lip curl sardonically , as if everything he believed of her had just been confirmed . |
| 9 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 10 | For example , when a human reader sees a word such as ’ hence ’ , ’ therefore ’ or ’ thus ’ , they interpret it as a signal that the next sentence will express some consequence of what has just been said [ Brooks & warren , 1970 ] . |
| 11 | It will be as well to make explicit the third-person criteria of individuation for a mental event , criteria which are implicit in what has just been said . |
| 12 | have n't got the plan in What has just been pointed out to me is that the er smaller site , that is the one with Oakwood on it , which I 'm sure is familiar to er anybody present , that 's just opposite Skelton Manor and Court , and the larger site was the land to the east of Oakwood incorporating this much larger pond w with what appears to be an island in it , er running right up to the boundary of the conservation area , I think . |
| 13 | Subsequent discrimination training thus occurs between the compound of A and its associate X and of B and its associate Y. If the events used as X and Y differ from each other more than do A and B ( see Fig. 5.10(b) ) then it might be supposed that the compounds would be discriminated more readily than would an untrained A and B. Certainly most proponents of an associative account for acquired distinctiveness effects have taken their analysis no further , implying that the phenomenon follows directly from what has just been said . |
| 14 | It follows from what has just been said that the identity of the respondent is not of much importance in defining the scope of judicial review . |
| 15 | But Ron Evans 's new concept for our programme , based on a degree of informality — with always space left at the end for viewers ' reaction to what had just been seen — and the new style of chatty presentation changed things . |
| 16 | We suppose , for instance , that what somebody says to us will be relevant to the occasion or to what has just been said , that people do not just issue utterances at random . |
| 17 | We need to reflect , however , on what has just been said : in brief , that for something to be or to have a power in the primary sense is for it to enter into a possible causal circumstance . |
| 18 | At any one moment the positioning of the folds of the vocal tract is determined not only by what has just been said but by what is about to be said ( Springer , 1979 ) . |