Example sentences of "they have just [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 2 | When she said they 'd just been to see their son in Rhodesia and you said ‘ Kenya for officers , Rhodesia for other ranks ’ it was awfully rude . ’ |
| 3 | Along the top of the ridge near the ski-lift station where they 'd just been assembled and accoutred , forty of fifty unwilling looking soldiers were strung out in a line attempting to obey orders and words of command from Non-Commissioned Officers who had sensibly omitted to incommode themselves with skis . |
| 4 | His insults had been no less cutting than the American 's , they 'd just been delivered with more urbanity . |
| 5 | They 'd just been told the George Hotel was n't important enough to be listed , but the protestors vowed to physically stop the demolition team if necessary and it looked as if they had the backing of the Planning Authority . |
| 6 | no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught . |
| 7 | Yeah , you 're told you 're going and we spend the first day overcoming barriers to the fact that they do n't know why they 're there , they 've just been sent and it 'll be good for you , you know this sort of stuff . |
| 8 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 9 | They 've just been terrorizing us and taking our money to protect us from themselves ! ’ |
| 10 | Erm We 've just the they 've just been altered actually |
| 11 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 12 | but , sort of like er , erm its like so , some of those paintings of the wraps and beautiful boat , they look as if they 've just been photographed , they looked as if they 're a photograph not a oil , oil painting . |
| 13 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 14 | They had just been moved into a new milking shed and they were in completely strange surroundings . |
| 15 | But we did n't want to cause embarrassment — after all , they had just been awarded a ‘ Proddy ’ award for services to dogs ! |
| 16 | I 'm not sure whether the change in areas was the reason for the last flurry or whether they had just been triggered by instinct and gone on the feed . |
| 17 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 18 | For they have just been faced with the prospect of losing £1 million of the money they have to spend on research this year . |
| 19 | This brings us to rule five : only ever praise somebody ( a ) in order to condemn someone else ( ‘ Danny Baker is genuinely witty and not childish like so many Radio 1 ‘ personalities ' ’ ) or ( b ) if they have just been sacked ( ‘ I found the previous presenters stylish , informed and witty , creating just the right atmosphere . |
| 20 | The lecture theatre resonates like a drum with the chatter of a hundred-odd students , all talking at once , as if they have just been released from solitary confinement . |
| 21 | I feel an opting-out system would be probably less distressing to the donor 's relatives ( who may find an approach for donation insensitive when they have just been told of an — often — unexpected death ) . |
| 22 | He went on : ‘ They are normally engaged in planning non-emergency journeys but since there have not been any it was felt that they have just been sitting around socialising when others are working long hours . |