Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gould found he ‘ had arrived at a good time , the birds having just commenced breeding ’ , and was immediately off to resume his researches with Natty and Jemmy in the cedar brushes of the Liverpool Range and on the nearby stretches of the Dart Brook . |
| 2 | Few of Camille 's schoolmates , even had they been able to read and write , would go on to a career in the sciences , since the chemistry lab had been the first to succumb , years back , when the rules had just been relaxed and attitudes to education liberalized . |
| 3 | ‘ The kidnappers have just given us quite explicit instructions not to involve the police in any way , yet you claim that we can send a senior officer along on the pay-off itself without there being any risk ! ’ |
| 4 | It was hard for him to catch the words , because the flowerbeds had just been hoed and the birds were raucous in their search for food in the fresh-turned soil . |
| 5 | But Edinburgh has begun to produce music of note : The Chimes have just celebrated their second number one on the Billboard dance charts , and Paul Haig has recently completed sessions with Curtis Mantronik and Lil Louis . |
| 6 | The goals have just dried up . |
| 7 | But suppose that nearly all the entries had just happened to be nasty . |
| 8 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
| 9 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 10 | Unfortunately it may not be this World Cup , for the Scots have just a minuscule chance of qualifying . |
| 11 | She had n't meant to ask , the words had just slipped out . |
| 12 | They were afraid of reprisal because the Arabs had just ambushed a relief convoy at Kubri . |
| 13 | The blacks had just seen a film , ‘ Mississippi Burning ’ , in which Klansmen beat a black child to death . |
| 14 | Isabel felt as though one of the mangonels had just rolled over her . |
| 15 | It was no accident that when I was writing this , the Conservatives had just been returned to power in the 1983 election , and one of their first moves was to try to disguise popular discontent with the police by the restoration of the rope . |
| 16 | He 'd noticed that the geese had just arrived in the back fields . |
| 17 | The Cranberries have just released their debut EP . |
| 18 | I am her pupil , but I can not read what I have written , because the lights have just gone out and the glow of the electric fire has dwindled to nothingness . |
| 19 | Perhaps the practitioners have just considered problem-solving techniques as ‘ common sense ’ . |
| 20 | The Joneses have just been asked to find 15 years ' back rent along with the residents of the other 17 flats at Shire Court in Swindon . |
| 21 | Wendell Harvey regarded his daughter thoughtfully as she rearranged the big vase of flowers one of the servants had just carried into the room . |
| 22 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 23 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 24 | Right , similarly at time T minus one we have Y , Y T minus one equals alpha plus beta X T minus one plus lander plus lander X T minus two , plus lander squared X T minus three plus X T minus four infinity again we call that B and that 's just the same equation but we just erm shifted the subscripts and right , this explains why in T , this ex explains why in T minus one right , all the subscripts have just been just been changed . |
| 25 | Er the appoi the governors have just made an appointment of erm to the headship of who 's the current deputy head , senior deputy at , he 'll be taking up his appointment er at Easter . |
| 26 | ‘ We do n't mind if the girls have just left school , or are still in school , whether they live outside the town or whether they are married , ’ said the committee member . |
| 27 | But the communicators have just as many , and their prejudices affected their accounts of the campaign . |
| 28 | ‘ I had been playing well since I returned from America , but the putts have just not dropped . |
| 29 | It is a little after breakfast and the Koons have just walked into their first scandal of the day . |
| 30 | The Nazis could only thrive on being seen to be refused , and the Poles had just obliged . |