Example sentences of "i [vb base] just [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've just been made redundant after 30 years as an engineer with British Telecom . ’ |
2 | Well , but I 've just been conversing with ghosts myself . |
3 | ‘ I have a feeling I 've just been conned , Father . |
4 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
5 | I 've just been to see one of our early arrivals in his cabin . |
6 | ‘ They say things like ‘ I 've just been to see Mum ’ so I must be still in it sort of , ’ she laughs . |
7 | I 've just been looking at the end-May figures and notice we 're just about holding our own on the Gesamt . |
8 | Ha , I 've just been looking around |
9 | ‘ I 've just been hearing about Pat 's epic poem about the ‘ other side ’ , ’ said Alison . |
10 | By the way , I 've just been glancing through my fixture list , and it seems to me that the real test of our recent good form will come in December/early January . |
11 | ‘ I 've just been asked to take over a leading role in a production that 's been playing in Stratford which they 're taking to the Barbican . |
12 | I 've just been taping loads , four . |
13 | ‘ I 've just been brewing some coffee — I expect you 'd like a cup . |
14 | I 've just been filling in my books and reading all about it . |
15 | I 've just been borrowing you . |
16 | ‘ I 'm not quite such a coincidence as I seem , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just been reading my uncle 's book on Aurae Phiala , that 's why I came to have a look at the place for myself . |
17 | I 've , I 've just been reading here some books that I 've got upstairs , and stuff , and I I I went to see one of erm Shakespeare 's erm , I went to see a Midnight Summer 's Dream |
18 | I 've just been watching all that Fields , that chap Fields . |
19 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
20 | Before Rachel was born I bought about six stretchsuits , and I 've just been given 12 more but I have n't had to spend much on her clothes yet because I 've had so many presents . |
21 | ‘ I 've just been given some great news . |
22 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |
23 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
24 | ‘ I 've just been telling the captain . |
25 | Though , ever a man to confuse her , he greeted her pleasantly , ‘ Good morning , darling , ’ and , in case she had n't got the message that the endearment was only on account of their audience , ‘ I 've just been telling my uncle that we 'll be leaving after breakfast . ’ |
26 | Er so it 's mainly erm what I 've just been telling you about cleaning all |
27 | ‘ I 've just been robbed ! |
28 | as if I had n't been through enough today , I 've just been dubbed your plaything of the week — ’ |
29 | ‘ What an interesting coincidence or , in view of what I 've just been learning , perhaps not all that much of a coincidence . |
30 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |