Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] 've just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 2 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 3 | These are the people to whom , for example , you write if you 've just been appointed liquidator of a company and want to get its VAT payments sorted out . |
| 4 | You got another five thousand cos you 've just been |
| 5 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 6 | but , sort of like er , erm its like so , some of those paintings of the wraps and beautiful boat , they look as if they 've just been photographed , they looked as if they 're a photograph not a oil , oil painting . |
| 7 | Yeah , it looks as if they 've just been sort of put in in a heap |
| 8 | no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught . |
| 9 | That 's a sprinter 's example , but it 's the same for any athletic performance , as I 've just been reminded by watching the astonishing improvement of Ray Davidson in these past few years . |
| 10 | And every generation , as we 've just been talking about , is going to have its misers creating other forms of famine . |
| 11 | Stan , as we 've just been hearing from Michael Medleycote , there 's a new initiative from the British Tourist Authority . |