Example sentences of "have just said " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The pilot has just said we 're diverting to Teeside because of the fog at Newcastle — we 're taxiing out now , ’ she said . |
| 2 | If it is obvious to both of them that what the speaker has just said is false , or so obvious as to need no comment at all , the hearer will look for implications , that is to say what is implied other than what is expressed . |
| 3 | The group can be asked to respond to what one individual has just said ; or it can focus discussion on one individual at a time ; or the counsellor can ensure that the group discusses general or shared problems , or that it links and compares different problems faced by individuals within the group . |
| 4 | ‘ The captain has just said it will be six hours and forty-five minutes , ’ said the Thing . |
| 5 | ‘ One of the humans has just said , ‘ It must have been a mouse or something , ’ and the other one said , ‘ You show me a mouse wearing clothes and I 'll admit it was a mouse . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ One of the humans has just said , ‘ I looked round and there it was , staring out of the window . ’ ‘ |
| 7 | ‘ But by the sound of what she has just said her mother was n't cut out for work , not the kind you 'll find in this quarter , except her last job . |
| 8 | Admiral Hawkins , as the General has just said , is in a position of having to cope with almost impossible circumstances which , as you are in a position to know better than most , involves making almost impossible decisions . |
| 9 | The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer . |
| 10 | After another brief pause , the speaker continues , using and to indicate that what she is going to say is connected to what she has just said . |
| 11 | Yeah but I agree totally with what , and the other lady has just said , but the other thing is is the amount of money that is spent when , you know , someone royal is coming for a visit because all of a sudden , you know , you have people in this country who are living in absolute poverty and yet because the royal sort of erm limousine is going past erm , for a few seconds where they stay all of a sudden the front of the house is painted ! |
| 12 | Would Louise and Fatty agree with what Ant has just said ? |
| 13 | After Sullivan left , he talk to Iranians who had come to the palace to see him , He said to the in wonderment , " Do you know what Sullivan has just said to me ? |
| 14 | That 's what Mike has just said . |
| 15 | It is even possible to conceive of holding your own in a conversation in which all you do is repeat aspects of what the other person has just said . |
| 16 | Does the Minister understand that , despite what he has just said , there is still considerable apprehension that the Government will use the existence of the foundation as an excuse for not funding sport properly ? |
| 17 | The right hon. Gentleman sounds from what he has just said as though he is a separatist . |
| 18 | May I endorse most vigorously what my hon. Friend has just said about the benefits of NHS trusts operating within the health service . |
| 19 | Does the Minister understand that what he has just said underlines the public 's high regard for search and rescue services provided by the Royal Air Force , particularly in a constituency such as mine , where RAF Leuchars is situated ? |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman does not need to rely on my words to rebut every word that he has just said ; he need only read the latest edition of the in-house magazine of the Confederation of Health Service Employees , where it is written : ’ The Mid-Glamorgan District Linen Service is efficient because it has no choice . |
| 21 | May I support what my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Selly Oak ( Mr. Beaumont-Dark ) has just said in urging the Government to give serious consideration to the establishment of a Securities and Exchange Commission in Britain . |
| 22 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to know about claptrap , he should listen to what he has just said . |
| 23 | In the light of what the right hon. Gentleman has just said , perhaps he will tell us two things : how much extra would he provide for health , and where does health come in Labour 's order of priorities ? |
| 24 | Will my right hon. Friend totally reject what the hon. Member for Great Grimsby ( Mr. Mitchell ) has just said , bearing in mind that only four days ago my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State was in my constituency , which adjoins Great Grimsby , to announce that Kimberly-Clark from America was to build a factory at Barton-upon-Humber involving 770 new jobs , thanks to the Government 's industrial policy and a large Government grant to that company ? |
| 25 | The success of British exporters , which apparently does not get one word of congratulation or praise from the Labour party , gives the lie to what the hon. Gentleman has just said . |
| 26 | I shall table a parliamentary question about that and I look forward to confirmation of what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has just said . |
| 27 | In what the Minister has just said , I detect exactly the same argument that he and many others used to justify the flat rate principle of the poll tax . |
| 28 | What the hon. Lady has just said is astonishing . |
| 29 | I thank my right hon. Friend for what he has just said about the vile allegations and lies against my hon. and learned Friend — I use both words advisedly — the Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) . |
| 30 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that , entirely contrary to what the Leader of the Opposition has just said , the settlement that he has won will be welcomed by the overwhelming majority of people in this country ? |