Example sentences of "i have just [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 2 | To judge by your face , you 'd have thought I 'd just been sentenced to hang , not thrown a lifeline . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 5 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 6 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 7 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 8 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 9 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 10 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 11 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
| 12 | Charles Archer says , ‘ I had just been manning my gun and had sat down when we took the hit . |
| 13 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 14 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 15 | I had just been reading in the Daily Minute about the string of beatings and manslaughters in Rosalind Court : the night before last a Jap computer expert and a German dentist had been found in a parking lot with their faces stomped off . |
| 16 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 17 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 18 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 19 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 20 | I was very tired after the long flight from London to Sydney and on the television show someone attacked what I had just been saying . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 22 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |
| 23 | I 've just been made redundant after 30 years as an engineer with British Telecom . ’ |
| 24 | Well , but I 've just been conversing with ghosts myself . |
| 25 | ‘ I have a feeling I 've just been conned , Father . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 27 | I 've just been to see one of our early arrivals in his cabin . |
| 28 | ‘ They say things like ‘ I 've just been to see Mum ’ so I must be still in it sort of , ’ she laughs . |
| 29 | I 've just been looking at the end-May figures and notice we 're just about holding our own on the Gesamt . |
| 30 | Ha , I 've just been looking around |