Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
| 2 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 3 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 4 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 5 | Having just shelled out for yet another year 's subscription to fabbo Guitarist magazine , I was raisy-eyebrowed to see under ‘ Postscript ’ in September 's issue : ‘ … will not only win that automatic free year 's Letter of the Month subscription … blah , blah , blah , blah … ’ |
| 6 | They 've just come in for ninety three . |
| 7 | Tamar had just gone upstairs for her needlework when Jim Fairly , the tenant of Paradise Farm , drove down the village with the body under a blanket on a flat cart . |
| 8 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 9 | The stuff had just stayed there for years , and Mum had n't been interested , but then people started talking about Dad , and writing to her , and sending pieces they 'd written on him . |
| 10 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 11 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 12 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 13 | James Dean had just arrived there for his first major role , having been brought from New York by the famed director Elia Kazan to star in East of Eden . |
| 14 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 15 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 16 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 17 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 18 | Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London . |
| 19 | He 's just popped out for supplies . |
| 20 | He 's just gone out for … but I never heard what it was , because I went . |
| 21 | Pike was standing by a wooden rack of pamphlets , including What Has Old Mother Walsh to Say to Us ? and a large , colourful one for the kiddies entitled Daddy is n't Dead , He 's Just Gone Out for a Bit . |
| 22 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |