Example sentences of "and have just [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But thanks to some detective work by a helpful contact in Fiji , Alf traced his friends and has just flown out to see them . |
| 2 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 3 | Flight Lieutenant Gareth Williams MHCIMA , formerly training officer at the RAF School of Catering , Aldershot , has been promoted to Squadron Leader and has just taken over as Officer Commanding Catering Squadron , at RAF St Athan , Barry , Wales . |
| 4 | The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society offers help for families who have lost babies and has just set up a Darlington branch . |
| 5 | He travels with camels and has just got back . |
| 6 | Seb undressed and prepared for bed and had just blown out his candle when he heard a noise from the landing just outside his room . |
| 7 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 8 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 9 | ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson . |