Example sentences of "who have just [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Damn ! ’ she said , like a tennis player who has just lost a point . |
| 2 | A friend who has just seen a Don Ameche movie informs the local doctor of the plot : ‘ He worked in his basement discovering things . |
| 3 | Margaret closed the briefcase with a click , like someone who has just completed a sale . |
| 4 | We speak here of a man who has just completed a season in which he won four USPGA Tour events and more than $1,000,000 to finish second on the money list behind Greg Norman . |
| 5 | Last week Dr Feeney , who has just completed a lecture tour of the States , let it be known he would not be seeking the SDLP nomination to contest the Oldpark ward in North Belfast . |
| 6 | For example , someone who has just completed a questionnaire ( at T 1 ) on nutrition may have a response to a film on food additives different from that which they would have had in the absence of the questionnaire . |
| 7 | KEEP AWAY FROM THE EDGE Anyone who has just missed a bus is experiencing stress , but will get over it quickly . |
| 8 | But the needs of a child who has just vacated a cot and , say , a sturdy 12-year-old are very different and ideally beds should be changed as a child grows , about every four or five years . |
| 9 | The Homicide Act requires evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control : this is wide enough to include things said or done by persons other than the deceased , and acts done against persons other than D ( e.g. where D is provoked to kill someone who has just committed a sexual offence upon D 's son , daughter , wife , etc . ) . |
| 10 | But Derek — who has just bought a £10,000 car and added a two-storey extension to his five-bedroom semi , hit back : ‘ I am a workaholic . |
| 11 | Neither Mr Bush nor James Baker , his secretary of state ( who talks about Lithuania and Latvia with the visible enthusiasm of someone who has just sucked a lemon ) , can yet bring himself to think anything but the best of Mr Gorbachev , so helpful last year in Europe , so kind this year in the Gulf . |
| 12 | PHILIPPE ROZIER , who has just finished a three-month ban after Oscar Minotiere was found over the permitted limit of the painkiller , butazolidine , rode the same horse to victory for France in the Euro Horse Trophy in Gothenberg yesterday , writes Alan Smith . |
| 13 | I think it would be well worth involving , who has just started a year at Selly Oak — his letter attached . |
| 14 | It follows from this that a reader who has just identified a particular letter will not be able to tell whether it was in upper or lower case on the basis of the information from the letter detector level . |
| 15 | The star , who has just enjoyed a hit with the old Smiths hit How Soon Is Now ? , suffers from bouts of depression . |
| 16 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 17 | But Bull , who has just signed a one year extension to his contract , struck twice with blistering shots in the 69th and 85th minutes . |
| 18 | Waqar , who has just signed a new three-year contract with Surrey , said : ‘ I do n't care what people say about ball-tampering either . ’ |
| 19 | If you know someone who has just passed a very difficult music exam , for instance , you could celebrate their victory by decorating some of their exam piece with a few pressed flowers before framing it and giving it . |
| 20 | By 1030 hours the Wall patrol has completed its escort task and is free to assist an Engineer Corporal who has just had a collision in his car with an East German in the Soviet Sector . |
| 21 | If this is doubted , try to write a set of objectives , including criteria for assessment , for the psychological care of an elderly middle class lady who has just had a colostomy performed . |
| 22 | And Newton himself exudes the confidence of someone who has just had a shave and put on a fresh shirt . |
| 23 | Somebody who has just had a trick played on them by Anancy ? |
| 24 | Trading standards officers were first alerted to the danger by someone who 'd just bought a mixer . |
| 25 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 26 | It would inflict special damage on a person who had just posted a business letter the purpose of which would be defeated by any exceptional delay . |
| 27 | A few days later , Grace McNeil , who had just lost a much-loved Rough Collie and had been sent to us by her vet , came and took the young male , Robbie . |
| 28 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 29 | Miller found himself playing the role of her doctor , manager , analyst and trouble-shooter with an increasingly frustrated , impatient and high-handed Olivier , who was having marital problems himself with the mentally troubled Vivien Leigh , who had just announced a miscarriage at the age of forty-one . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not rushing out to get more players , ’ said Gray , who had just rejected a bid of £175,000 for Willis from Motherwell . |