Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb -s] just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to reach out and touch her , like she 's just been bereaved . |
| 2 | The landlady looks like she 's just been told she 'll stay ugly for the rest of her life . |
| 3 | It is unquestionably a pleasure to see Paul Scofield wrap his voice round a sentence ; Vanessa Redgrave laugh as if she 's just been caught off guard ; and Daniel Massey inflect his expression just so , to suggest a man on the cusp between debonair and disintegrating . |
| 4 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |
| 5 | If it has just been created using option 2.1.1 — Create DC , it should now be updated using option 2.1.2 — Update DC and then submitted for assessment using option 2.1.3 , whereupon no further changes will be possible . |
| 6 | If what has just been said gives an impression that interviews can be almost infinite in their variety , perhaps this is not a bad thing . |
| 7 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
| 8 | Perhaps it 's because he 's just been asked yet again about that record . |
| 9 | You 've got an opportunity now because he 's just been appointed to make contact with him , you do n't need any other excuse to make contact with him |
| 10 | Over lunch I overheard Bernadette say to Sarah who 'd just started with us then , Ricky 's a bit strange at the moment because he 's just been on a course , but he 'll be better next week . |
| 11 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 12 | Any unit of information may of course change status as the discourse proceeds , and what was new in one sentence becomes given in the next , precisely because it has just been said . |
| 13 | ‘ As though it 's just been created and has n't had a chance to get fouled up with so-called ‘ civilisation ’ . |