Example sentences of "they have just [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've just turned to the zone game after generations of the sweeper system . |
| 2 | There 's still another shoe to drop on whether they can survive the maelstrom of pressures that they 've just plunged into . |
| 3 | And for some veteran or novice rower , they 'll be able to go home and say they 've just rowed with an Olympic gold medallist . |
| 4 | No up where the other 's are , where they 've just hidden in the bushes , I found sum brand new ones on Wednesday or Thur , after we had the heavy rain Why we going this way ? |
| 5 | An arts student may have no arguments either way ; they 've just heard of this mystical thing called Science , but once you 've been doing Science , you realize that a statement like that just does not hold water , and so it enables faith to come far more easily . |
| 6 | They 've just vanished into the woodwork , Pearce had said . |
| 7 | They 've just got ta sell it ! |
| 8 | Jock , no-one can be bothered to work , but they 've just got ta do it . |
| 9 | They 've just papered over things . |
| 10 | Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’ |
| 11 | Uranium , they 've just put into the reactor , and it reacts with the other , I do n't know what exactly how it works but , er |
| 12 | You know that 's all right he may , might , alright there may of been a soldier there , but they 've just come from that direction |
| 13 | It was like telling someone they had just lost at Russian roulette . |
| 14 | Try walking into that dressing-room after they had just lost by an innings . |
| 15 | They were then asked to recall the story they had just seen in either sign ( deaf and bilinguals ) or in speech ( hearing people ) . |
| 16 | They had just turned into Bacon Street when he heard a loud voice calling to him and pulled sharply on the reins . |
| 17 | They had just risen to their feet when a strident voice exclaimed , ‘ Well , will you look who 's here … ? ’ |
| 18 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
| 19 | They had just gone to their bedroom , leaving friends and relatives at the reception downstairs , when the alarm was raised at 1am . |
| 20 | In fact on the day they signed the contracts with Wonderland for the King 's Hall they had just gone to No 1 in the charts with their new album . |
| 21 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 22 | Ursula returned to the hi-fi , removed the cassette they had just listened to and loaded another . |
| 23 | They had just got to the part about Dora 's Naughty Friend . |
| 24 | They had just partaken of ‘ bile beer ’ , as brewed and purveyed by Matt ‘ the tube ’ Crowley . |
| 25 | They had just returned to the courtyard and were about to examine the various outbuildings when they heard the sound of running footsteps . |
| 26 | They had just returned to the flat after a long , lazy picnic in the September sunshine , to find Elise out . |
| 27 | She could hardly follow up the exchange they had just had with a question about his relationship with Puddephat . |
| 28 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 29 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 30 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |