Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The only thing that can be said is that somebody has just snuffed out a very special person who was going to achieve an incredible amount in life .
2 Made to Measure ( 0243 533333 ) has just brought out a ‘ Family Skiing ’ brochure featuring child-friendly hotels in France , Switzerland , Austria and the US .
3 Jackie Gardner takes exhibits to horticultural shows all over the country and the nursery has just picked up a Gold Medal at Chelsea .
4 The French prime minister has just thrown down a gauntlet to America on agricultural trade : he wants to rewrite the deal recently struck by America and the EC on farm exports ( see page 92 ) .
5 It is , therefore , worth bearing in mind that if you want a new tank , and have a friend who has just set up a new fish-house , you might do well to order through him/her …
6 And Kode has just set up a new marketing company , Kamtronics , to sell all high-volume printed circuit boards made in the Far East to the UK and Europe .
7 The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society offers help for families who have lost babies and has just set up a Darlington branch .
8 I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’
9 ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says .
10 I think I 've just sewn up a deal on a new account . ’
11 Oh we we 've just sent out a six thousand mailer .
12 ‘ We 've just picked up a message on the Miletti family line , dottore .
13 ( 4 ) Rigby Electronics ( Harvard OTC ) " They 've just brought out a device for checking whether a credit card belongs to a particular person or not .
14 What I 've just described there a f is a full and complete contract and you tick down there .
15 I 've just had rather a disturbing meeting with one of my girlfriends . ’
16 ‘ I 've just got rather a cold , ’ she said .
17 Well no , if you remember they they 've just started now a review of nineteen ninety three 's reorganisation because everything that moved from Newark to West Bridgford has moved back again
18 He had just picked up a particularly attractive ring , when a girl 's voice said , ‘ That 's not for sale . ’
19 A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure .
20 Scarlet had just thrown away a bunch of dried Proveņcal flowers which had adorned her sideboard for over a year and was already feeling slightly better : she thought that if only she could rearrange all the furniture , she might be cured , but it seemed too drastic a step to take .
21 And a man to whom she had just thrown down a deliberate challenge .
22 And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known .
23 Hagglers need nerve , particularly the ability to keep calm when they have just turned down an offer but can not yet be sure that another is forthcoming , says the book .
24 Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals .
25 ‘ My husband and I have just taken out a massive loan to finance the purchase of offices and manufacturing equipment .
26 I have just put together a mail shot which I am sending to all Premier League chairmen .
27 Logic Promotions , those people who do the Number One range of instrument care products — fingerboard oil , and so on — have just brought out a new set of unusual and rather delectable guitar cables .
28 That 's why Haliborange have just brought out a new Multivitamin Liquid containing essential vitamins A to E in the proportions that a growing child needs .
29 I have just wiped out a whole line by carelessly resting my finger on a key , and earlier it kept telling me ‘ mistake ’ — not , of course , helpfully saying what the mistake was .
30 Yes , I 've got my cat , it 's just gone out , yeah I 've got a cat , yes he 's a lovely little cat I 've got and he 's just gone out a little ginger and but I did have a dog but I , cos he , I had him several years here a beautiful little corgi he was and then I had to have him put to sleep because he had er water trouble , but then my doctor advised me that I , he said do n't have another dog have a cat , so I had a cat , I 've always had a cat though
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