Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] [verb] just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kid gets on his bicycle ; for a few moments he wears the expression of someone who had just been made aware of his own mortality . |
| 2 | Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in . |
| 3 | ‘ That 'd be a clever trick for someone who 's just been blown up . ’ |
| 4 | I frowned like someone who has just been put on the spot and is afraid of making a fool of himself . |
| 5 | This is no time to hesitate , though , for however dazed , withdrawn , emotional , restless , irritable or distant she may seem , she is as urgently in need of help as someone who has just been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 6 | Debbie hesitated , wondering how she could refuse somebody who had just been so helpful ; but she did . |
| 7 | ‘ It could be the killer was somebody who had just been passing by the apartment block . ’ |
| 8 | It 's like offering an elastoplast to somebody who has just been disembowelled . |
| 9 | It 's a letter from the Executive Services Officer that states , rule six , which is the one I 've just been talking about on the previous motion , is quite clear in saying that only individual members can pursue appeals and not a branch . |
| 10 | This one you 've just been doing now . |
| 11 | Which is the one we 've just been talking about . |
| 12 | er , this is not of , this is not of the point , in fact it 's on it , it 's a point which I asked you before and er it concerned , I think it 's the same case as the one we 've just been mentioning the , with the commission of objecting to erm appeal procedures on the grounds they are unfair , is that , that 's the same one is n't it ? , let me just perhaps look at it |
| 13 | Is that the one we 've just been doing ? |
| 14 | The letter ( the one we have just been talking about , the one that arrived by post this morning , the one containing Aunt Kitty 's cheque … ) is in the drawer ( the one in the desk , the one in the dressing table upstairs , the one in the kitchen where we always put the post … ) . |
| 15 | ‘ From day one he has just been a super example to everyone — from YTS players to internationals — with his performances in matches and in training . ’ |
| 16 | Far from having run its course , the struggle for the emancipation of the serfs was about to enter an even more heated phase than the one it had just been going through . |