Example sentences of "have just [be] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 2 | She 'd just been visiting a widow of an old army friend of Yury 's , who had a bad attack of flu . |
| 3 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 4 | er , this is not of , this is not of the point , in fact it 's on it , it 's a point which I asked you before and er it concerned , I think it 's the same case as the one we 've just been mentioning the , with the commission of objecting to erm appeal procedures on the grounds they are unfair , is that , that 's the same one is n't it ? , let me just perhaps look at it |
| 5 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've just been telling the captain . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been showing the insurance gentleman where the bells are kept , Mr Caretaker . |
| 9 | I 've just been doing the wrong question . |
| 10 | She rolled her shirt-sleeves and crouched on the platform shouting back , above the noise of the engine and Marley , ‘ I 've just been checking the records . |
| 11 | Some kind soul had just been keeping the garden under reasonable control — that was all . |
| 12 | Y-you … ’ she spluttered , and , loving him , found it absolutely beyond belief that he should believe that she and his cousin had just been having a fine old time . |
| 13 | ‘ Not too good , I 've heard , ’ said Greg , not adding that he had just been grilling the doctor who signed her second husband 's death certificate . |
| 14 | Have just been reading the book of Joel . |