Example sentences of "[noun prp] have just [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southend pumps its sewage into the sea after primary treatment ; the beach at Westcliff has just been called unsuitable for swimming by the Heinz Good Beach Guide . |
| 2 | A headhunter for ten years , Kinnaird has just been commissioned by his first female client , which speaks volumes . |
| 3 | Eleanor had just been photographed for one of the supplements and it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news . |
| 4 | Richard had just been born . |
| 5 | Some argue that the horrors of Bosnia call to mind the Holocaust , to which a memorial museum in Washington has just been dedicated . |
| 6 | Man Of Ross has just been chosen as a demonstration farm by an organization called LEAF … |
| 7 | THE SEVENTH in an occasional series of books on aspects of the Somerset & Dorset has just been released . |
| 8 | ACCORDING to the Daily Mail , a doctor in Florida has just been busted for charging people £12 a time for a new dieting aid . |
| 9 | Mr Wolfe had just been doing his customary job of explaining to the passengers why we were late : ‘ We have an emergency situation which is not a real alarm situation . ’ |
| 10 | His contemporary Gregory Corso 's first book The Vestal Lady On Brattle had just been published . |
| 11 | The effect of Dr McNab 's arguments was by no means as overwhelming as might be supposed ; with the best will in the world and in ideal circumstances it is next to impossible to escape cerebral indigestion as someone quotes comparative figures as fluently as Dr McNab had just been doing . |
| 12 | Léonie had just been kissed for the first time by a boy . |
| 13 | Well I 'll be going up to watch that match that Hugh 's just been talking about . |
| 14 | McDonough has just been handed his third suspension of the season following his sending off offence at Rochdale last weekend , and he is prepared to take a back seat for much of the rest of this season — if not all of it . |
| 15 | The price of oil was tumbling again , one of his most reliable brokers on Wall Street had just been arrested for insider dealing , the acquisition of a highly prestigious London hotel had been held up by a query as to who actually owned it and , back home , one of his sisters had just committed suicide , causing a tremor of scandal throughout the country . |
| 16 | At Hanworth he met a girl named Hanna Reitsch.She had just been towed across the English Channel in a glider . |
| 17 | Sylvia had just been detained because she was a student representative at school . |
| 18 | Well I 'm certain that if you looked at every post in the City we could certainly save one or two , I do n't think anyone would deny that , but the sort of cases that Queenie 's just been talking about , I think she 's talking absolute nonsense . |
| 19 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 20 | Geoffrey 's just been telling me all about it . |
| 21 | Anyway , Robin 's just been poking around and he 's come up with a can of Mr Shen , the noo . |
| 22 | Anyway , Robin 's just been poking around and he 's come up with a can of Mr Shen , the noo . |
| 23 | In the General Prologue the Reeve is thus described : and : and the Host responds to the serious reflections of the Reeve 's Prologue accordingly : But the Host too has appropriated a character , as judge and ruler of the tale-telling game , that takes him beyond the predictable attributes of his normal station in life : while in the fiction of the Tales , the Miller has just been attributed with the strengths of the court poet Chaucer as a narrator . |
| 24 | Leggy Linda Lusardi has just been told that her new job involves moving in with seven adoring men . |
| 25 | Those poor children in the Cairngorms had just been recovered from the clutches of what can only be described as moronic supervisors . |
| 26 | Second was the husband of Mrs Chapple ; Mrs Chapple had just been admitted to hospital and seemed unlikely to return home : |
| 27 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 28 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 29 | Twenty three year old John Kitchin had just been remanded in custody on a burglary charge . |
| 30 | Twenty three year old John Kitchin had just been remanded in custody on a burglary charge . |