Example sentences of "have just been [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
| 2 | I 've just been taping loads , four . |
| 3 | The West had just been sending gold straight to Stalin 's coffers . ’ |
| 4 | He had sprung to his feet and thrown out his arms and cried , for he had just been doing Archimedes ' Principle at school , " Eureka ! " |
| 5 | Well another question — it 's been put several times on this programme — it 's something like this — Councillors have just been considering cuts in budgets that will affect the voters . |