Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] just been " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had taken off her coat , somehow contrived to make herself seem a little dishevelled , as though the two of them had just been snogging on the sofa or something . |
| 2 | And three of them had just been whipped from under me . |
| 3 | Then Pike , or Pike 's body anyway , fiopped all over Quigley as if the two of them had just been exchanging bodily fiuids . |
| 4 | Scarlet could not now imagine how she had passed the week with the house next door empty and soulless : she tidied the kitchen in readiness for her friend 's return and sat down to read the local paper , two copies of which had just been delivered through the letterbox . |
| 5 | They develop a weak sleep/wake rhythm in the absence of external time cues , the implication of which has just been discussed . |
| 6 | The people least likely to be able to find £24–95 to buy the first set of reports on science teaching from the Assessment Performance Unit ( APU ) of the Department of Education and science * , the latest volume of which has just been published . |
| 7 | The people least likely to be able to find £24–95 to buy the first set of reports on science teaching from the Assessment Performance Unit ( APU ) of the Department of Education and science * , the latest volume of which has just been published . |
| 8 | ‘ It sounds like a convenient arrangement , ’ Luke commented urbanely , and Maria saw his lip curl sardonically , as if everything he believed of her had just been confirmed . |
| 9 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 10 | For example , when a human reader sees a word such as ’ hence ’ , ’ therefore ’ or ’ thus ’ , they interpret it as a signal that the next sentence will express some consequence of what has just been said [ Brooks & warren , 1970 ] . |