Example sentences of "just been [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | have n't got the plan in What has just been pointed out to me is that the er smaller site , that is the one with Oakwood on it , which I 'm sure is familiar to er anybody present , that 's just opposite Skelton Manor and Court , and the larger site was the land to the east of Oakwood incorporating this much larger pond w with what appears to be an island in it , er running right up to the boundary of the conservation area , I think . |
| 2 | I know , it 's just been made up for her is it not ? |
| 3 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 4 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 5 | Leaving his cry wafting after him , he disappeared in pursuit of a housemaid who was busily removing all the clean antimacassars that had only just been placed lovingly in position for the oil-bedaubed heads that would shortly be resting on them . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 7 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 8 | It is the characteristic of the kind of Governments that have just been turned over beyond the line , in Europe . |
| 9 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 10 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 11 | Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in . |
| 12 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 13 | ‘ You look as if you 've only just been let out on parole ! ’ |
| 14 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |
| 15 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 16 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 17 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 18 | Streets and squares had only just been marked out with pegs and twine amid the clutter . |
| 19 | But a compromise has just been worked out between the governor , the tribes and Bruce Babbitt , the ex-governor of Arizona who is now interior secretary , under which casino gambling would be restricted to the reservations , and the tribes would be given slot machines in proportion to their population . |
| 20 | Now before Neil starts panicking and worrying about that , bear in mind that that is spread over the whole spectrum of operations , including things like heart transplants and the like , and also , for example , an elderly person who 's just been smashed up by er Astra G T E |
| 21 | That home , however , has just been closed down as part of county hall 's budget cuts . |
| 22 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 23 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 24 | You may like to know that we are represented on the Wales Access Forum , which has just been set up under the auspices of the Countryside Council for Wales . |
| 25 | As a matter of interest and as a direct result of our attendance at five of these Auctions — a total of 37 unweaned foals and ponies were rescued , and a small FOAL SANCTUARY has just been set up in Burnley for their rehabilitation . |
| 26 | Tom leaned forward , ignoring the piping hot servings of lobster meunière which had just been set reverently in front of them . |
| 27 | A widow who 's only just been allowed home from hospital after suffering a stroke has been robbed as she lay in bed . |
| 28 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 29 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 30 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |