Example sentences of "i have just [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing . |
| 2 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 3 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 4 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Abramson , of Shirley Road , Allerton , said last night : ‘ I had just gone to the off-licence to help my daughter Trudie while her husband went for his tea . |
| 6 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 7 | You see , I had just graduated to the position of providing a horse and cart , and any amount of people wanted that job so I would have lost it , maybe for good , if I had n't turned up . |
| 8 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 9 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 10 | I had just got to the tricky bit when in walked this friend with the usual enquiries . |
| 11 | I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’ |
| 12 | When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl . |
| 13 | An interesting situation which I 've just explained to Ann , whereby at the weekend there 's a set of offices in the Strand Theatre which the company that we 're operating from there so stopped |
| 14 | I 've just seen to it that . |
| 15 | It 's for those reasons , sir , that the City Council feels that it can no longer support the proposed proposals for new settlement , just to come to your question about the issue of scale , I am not able to define what er small is in P P G three , it 's obviously been left deliberately vague , but I would draw your attention to the Ucwetec T P A study I 've just referred to which makes it quite clear in their terms that to be self contained in transport terms the nearest any settlement ne really needs to be in excess of twenty thousand people . |
| 16 | as far as the committee was concerned there is they 've taken a decision on the preferred route , but we did as I 've just referred to in the earlier work , er we did assess that erm and that showed again er that the traffic would n't transfer from the A sixty one onto a southern bypass and a inner northern relief road . |
| 17 | But it is n't because I 've just said to you several times that one point two billion for a single franchise is absolutely ridiculous . |
| 18 | I 've spoken to Angela and Angela said , just alter the week numbers on the , on your P forty five , but as I 've just said to Neil if I do that , that is gon na throw it out for year end when I give you yo your green slip . |
| 19 | so you close him on his final objection , you listen , you then sell him his objection , right , you sell him his objection , right , you confirm his answer , right , whatever he says to you and his answer you actually confirm it back to him , you do n't interrupt him , right , you do n't guess where he 's at , right and basically if work through a system you 'll get on there , now for me to be able to , to , to , what I 've just said to you is a load of garbage , but if I was sitting I was sitting actually go through each one of these steps and that 's what you term as a closing sequence , you see what I mean ? |
| 20 | As I say , I er well I 've just said to you , I mean er we sell forty odd quids worth to blokes . |
| 21 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 22 | ‘ I hope you 're grateful for all the trouble I 've just gone to , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Okay is there anybody else that you would need to talk to about the recommendations that I 've just given to you ? |
| 24 | When they get hold of me twice in the one day you say hang on I 've just given to you the bus ! |
| 25 | Hello and Happy New Year I 've just returned to uni after the crimble hols and have just finished shifting through all the e-mail — thank god the Wilko/List abuse thread has finished ! ! ! ! |
| 26 | I 've just walked to school for fucking nuffink I have n't got a lesson |
| 27 | Well I 've just got to . |
| 28 | ‘ As I 've just proved to you . |
| 29 | I 've just spoken to Megan . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've just spoken to Ted , who took those women into the bush . |