Example sentences of "she have just [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 2 | Occasionally flicking back a stray blonde hair , Mrs Bottomley comes to the despatch box as if she has just leapt out of a hair spray advert . |
| 3 | She 'd just gone down there to look for any good-natured sucker . |
| 4 | That night in bed , not able to sleep , she remembered she 'd once knocked on Miss Malabedeely 's door and when Miss Malabedeely had n't answered she 'd just gone in . |
| 5 | Her heart raced like a riptide ; her ears rang and lights fizzed at the back of her eyes as if she 'd just dived deep into the bosom of Ocean . |
| 6 | I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done . |
| 7 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 8 | she 'd gone out , she 'd just slipped out with Alice for something |
| 9 | She 'd just got in , and her husband . |
| 10 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 11 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 12 | Lucy Lane arrived : in a green frock figured in black , dark hair expertly set , a shoulder bag matching her frock ; she looked as though she had just stepped out of her BMW runabout for a spot of window shopping . |
| 13 | For some reason she found what she had just said enormously funny , and exploded into the phone with a fruity laugh before putting down her receiver . |
| 14 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Gabriel , though he felt as crushed as the thistle she had just stood on . |
| 16 | She had just stood there , scarcely able to breathe , and aware that only a hair 's breadth of control separated her from a fury that would shake her to her soul . |
| 17 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 18 | The harder Julius had tried , the less she had seemed able to respond to him , she had just frozen up inside . |
| 19 | Alone , Franca washed her face in cold water in the kitchen , washing off the powder she had just put on . |
| 20 | She corrected this idea by always wearing a hat , as though she had just looked in on her way to the garden . |
| 21 | His most touching moment came after Dreamflight a couple of years ago when he was asked to rush to the bedside of a leukaemia victim who wanted to see the photos of the trip that she had just enjoyed so much . |
| 22 | A moment later , though , and Fabia was scrapping that theory , for she had just remembered how Ven had parted from her with the words , ‘ I 'll send Ivo for you about seven . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ No ! ’ the Doctor said , and at the same time Bernice was trying to remember exactly when she had had the conversation that she had just remembered so clearly . |
| 24 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 25 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 26 | Her hair was black and thick and looked tangled , as though she had just got out of bed and not brushed it . |
| 27 | The detective smiled to soften the barb she had just thrown even though the tone was not hostile . |
| 28 | And a man to whom she had just thrown down a deliberate challenge . |
| 29 | But she had just settled down , flicking the control through a dozen or so channels until she found the one she wanted , when the door opened and Marc himself came in . |
| 30 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |