Example sentences of "that he have just [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 His immense desire to have something outside himself that he could look up to and worship expressed itself not merely in that idealistic phase that he 'd just gone through , but in his attitude towards mathematical truth .
2 ‘ You 'd have heard him all over the shop , ’ he said , ‘ and he came off the phone complaining that he 'd just lost 40,000 .
3 She 'd been waiting outside his office for the best part of three hours when his secretary came to tell her that he 'd just phoned in .
4 A door stood half-open , showing a mirror-image view of the room that he 'd just left .
5 serious complaint that he 'd just got .
6 Leaving aside his feelings and motives , her feelings were so intense that if she could blot out the knowledge that he 'd just used her , the two nights spent in his arms would glow like jewels in the ashes of the years .
7 Last week , my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science said that he was not going to tell teachers how to teach in primary schools or pre-empt the outcome of the inquiry that he had just announced .
8 He had a serious expression on his face and there were no signs that he had just escaped a raging inferno .
9 Miller next wrote on 15 February 1757 reporting that he had just received a letter from Bartram , written at the beginning of November , with the ‘ disagreeable account that neither of my letters , wrote last summer ’ had arrived and thus some of his important queries had not been considered .
10 The Exec Director gave the DDA a number that he had just received from his bureau chief in London .
11 Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby .
12 He parked the machine and announced to a stunned crowd that he had just retired .
13 He realized that he had just murmured something under his breath .
14 In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One !
15 Considering that he had just made a pointless journey of several thousand miles , the young man seemed remarkably equable and spent almost the entire journey sitting cross-legged , spooning purple yoghurt into his mouth from an enormous jar and reading a novel by Thomas Mann .
16 And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ .
17 Jones had already used a variety of materials , one of which was palladium , and was preparing to obtain the final proof with his detector that he had just spent two years building .
18 If you read my brief interview with Yngwie , back in April , you will recall that he had just released his tenth album ‘ Fire and Ice ’ and was touring the world to promote it .
19 Given Brainerd 's background in the publishing industry , mainly newspapers , and the fact that he had just left Atex it is hardly surprising that the program was designed around the traditional ‘ cut and paste ’ working methods .
20 Tommaso said , quickly , that he could not stay , that he had just had something to drink , anyway , in town .
21 He found it strange that he had just buried Tosspot who used to clean the platters and tankards in this very tavern .
22 The simplest explanation was that he had just got tired of Jacqui .
23 At the same time , Coleridge 's mother in-law , Mrs Fricker , also seemed on the point of death at the house in Oxford Street , Kingsdown , that he had just found for Sara and himself on the north side of the city .
24 ‘ Gooseneck says he was pretty dotty even fifteen years ago , when he became a resident , and that he 's just got more so .
25 Yeah well it , it 's probably that he 's just got one .
26 But what 's aggrieved me is that he 's just waltzed off with it and not
27 The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer .
28 The hon. Gentleman does not need to rely on my words to rebut every word that he has just said ; he need only read the latest edition of the in-house magazine of the Confederation of Health Service Employees , where it is written : ’ The Mid-Glamorgan District Linen Service is efficient because it has no choice .
29 Does my right hon. Friend agree that the answer that he has just given is further reinforced by the fact that several third-world countries , including some middle eastern countries such as Iraq , Algeria and perhaps Libya , are currently acquiring nuclear weapons ?
30 In the light of that , and of the answer that he has just given , would he care to contrast our policy with that of the Labour party ?
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