Example sentences of "they have just [vb pp] a " in BNC.

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1 They 'd just survived a crash and had over-reacted .
2 Whenever I saw her and Shadwell together they always looked pretty intense , as if they 'd just had a fight or shared a lot of secrets .
3 The band have little spare time on their hands , they 've just completed a 50 date tour and have recorded a session for the Bob Harris Radio One show which goes out from Monday April 13th–16th , one song each night .
4 Hyperoid It 's Asteroids by another name , again with some additions ( although I was never any good at this one , so maybe they 've just chopped a few levels out ) .
5 They 've just produced a luxury version of the aircraft , which they hope will encourage more people to take up the sport .
6 They 've just finished a new office block with the lowest handrails .
7 They 've just got a snooker team and a golf club and
8 ‘ In Maastricht , they 've just opened a new EC public toilet , to help bring nationalities together , and it works .
9 Well , well they 've just sold a player to Leicester for eighty five thousand and they , they bought a fella from Port Vale on a free transfer , well he 's a Richard they 've bought him back again , only with a , all due respect but er now he 's got he 's playing very well with Leicester now , and he 's , he 's scored two goals and made one the other Saturday , and , and everyone , every match since he 's been there every time he 's played .
10 They 've just put a new piece of wood on the back .
11 Now , they 've just won a £50,000 order to supply 59 instrumenmts to a new Museum of Music in Taiwan .
12 And they 've just won a tourist award for providing some of the best accomodation in the area .
13 HEART op patients often wake thinking they 've just had a baby — even if they 're men , according to American doctors .
14 ‘ The Inspirals look like they 've just had a charisma bypass operation . ’
15 Steve Bradbury says it 's a great place to be stuck … they 've just had a fried breakfast and now they are having free drinks
16 I mean , they 've just had a new double glazed back door put on .
17 And they 've just had a new car have n't they ?
18 She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ?
19 when they 've just had a call in , to start on Monday .
20 They had just done a big concert at the Albert Hall with an orchestra for an album called Snowgoose .
21 They had just negotiated a lock and it had been her turn to go ashore .
22 Travis glanced at his watch and sighed , rising from the table in Paige 's room where they had just enjoyed a long , leisurely breakfast .
23 How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist .
24 Phil Barber , Barnard Castle National Farmers ' Union branch secretary , condemned the Intervention Board 's decision , saying the operators were particularly upset because they had just spent a lot of money to improve the facilities to offer a better service to customers .
25 Indeed , they had just finished a three month study , half funded by the hospital ‘ at a time when it did n't have a penny ’ to assess bed blocking on one medical/geriatric ward that had particular problems .
26 Now , for example , they had just finished a sponge bath in bed , there was a pre-dinner blood glucose test to do , as well as the pre-dinner insulin injection — right arm , site four , this evening — and the foot-care routine still to fit in .
27 They were seated , as was their custom , in the summer-house , where they had just finished a light lunch .
28 And they have just completed a deal to buy the disused Grand Hotel on the Marine Promenade to give that a facelift .
29 Since then , they have released a couple of impressive extended plays , ‘ Safari ’ and the more recent ‘ Cannonball ’ , and they have just unveiled a new long player in ‘ The Breeders ' Last Splash ’ .
30 If you look at Thames there is no woman in senior management , though they have just appointed a new female company secretary which is good , so there will be one .
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