Example sentences of "just received [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 2 | I have just received a request ( not quite a demand ) from Expotel for £350 ( +10% commission on bookings ) to join its hotel database , otherwise I risk falling off its screens . |
| 3 | The extract starts where Gilly has just received a postcard from her mother . |
| 4 | Miller next wrote on 15 February 1757 reporting that he had just received a letter from Bartram , written at the beginning of November , with the ‘ disagreeable account that neither of my letters , wrote last summer ’ had arrived and thus some of his important queries had not been considered . |
| 5 | This unit had just received a request from Colonel Keest in the Outer Hebrides for men to be taken off his hands . |
| 6 | Questions range from the extreme — ‘ My client 's been arrested for murder ’ — to the mundane — ‘ I have just received a mailshot from another firm which is quite appalling . ’ |
| 7 | As they straighten , curve the spine and pull in the tummy , as if you have just received a blow . |
| 8 | He has just received a hefty testimonial pay-out and is in the last 18 months of his current contract . |
| 9 | A FARM in Bures , Suffolk , has just received a reply from water chiefs to a drainage query sent in 28 years ago . |
| 10 | I HAVE just received a copy of the new timetable for the Mid-Hants Railway , ‘ The Watercress Line ’ . |
| 11 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 12 | ‘ The President 's just received a telephone call from Zimbala , ’ Kolchinsky said . |
| 13 | As I pulled in at the ambulance building , the switchboard had just received a message that a dead body had been found in Cathedral Road . |
| 14 | Here for instance is her rendering of Emma Woodhouse 's thoughts , having just received a most unwelcome proposal of marriage from Mr Elton whom she had supposed to be in love with her protégée , Harriet , as a result of her own matchmaking contrivances : |
| 15 | In fact I have just received a copy of ‘ Transport in the 1990s ’ , which is an information pamphlet from the European Commission setting out the European Community 's strategy for transport . |
| 16 | I am six weeks pregnant , and have just received a present of some beauty products . |
| 17 | Richard has just received a cheque for £1000 as winner of the Student Award competition sponsored by Booker Fitch Food Services among students on the HCIMA Professional Diploma course . |
| 18 | ‘ Anyone would think you 'd just received a death sentence . |
| 19 | Only this weekend , I had a telephone call from a distressed daughter who pointed out that her mother , who was widowed 18 months ago , had just received a threatening letter saying that , if she did not pay £11 for the 16 days between 1 April and 17 April 1989 , during which her husband had been alive , poinding action would be taken against her . |
| 20 | You live in Glasgow and you have just received a letter from a company requesting you to attend for interview at the Station Hotel , Inverness on Tuesday morning at 9.30 am . |
| 21 | I I 've just received a fax of a letter sent to the leader of Liverpool City Council , coun er councillor Harry Rimmer by the right honourable member for Sutton Coldfield , in which he invites him to join an organisation called team two thousand er and as part of this invitation he 's invited to attend functions and briefings at Westminster , er at which cabinet m er ministers ministers e cabinet members ministers members of parliament , will be present . |
| 22 | A RESEARCH team at Glasgow University has just received a £1.5 million grant from the Science and Engineering Research Council to carry out a project to increase the capacity of fibre-optic cables , writes Eric McKenzie |
| 23 | One farmer has just received a bill for seven hundred pounds . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've just received an important telex . |
| 25 | Pelham Puppets has just received an order to make ten thousand Thunderbirds puppets . |
| 26 | At the headquarters of Pelham Puppets in Cheltenham they 've just received an order to make 10,000 models of Lady Penelope and friends . |
| 27 | FEW people outside Skinningrove have heard of the Tom Leonard Mining Museum yet they 've just received an SOS from a remote Bulgarian monastery asking for food parcels . |
| 28 | I HAVE just received the photocopies of personal interventions , including yours , to the authority of Zaire , from the President of Human Rights in Zaire . |
| 29 | Having just received the whole kingdom from him , they ca n't wait to get rid of him . |
| 30 | Christina had just received the last consignment of furniture , arriving in the nick of time to prevent it being dumped higgledy-piggledy in the reception hall . |