Example sentences of "have just taken [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf . |
| 2 | A spokesman at the estate said yesterday : ‘ As the new earl has just taken over , we are reviewing our business policy . ’ |
| 3 | Flight Lieutenant Gareth Williams MHCIMA , formerly training officer at the RAF School of Catering , Aldershot , has been promoted to Squadron Leader and has just taken over as Officer Commanding Catering Squadron , at RAF St Athan , Barry , Wales . |
| 4 | May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London . |
| 5 | Mr Pacey has just taken over as head of the National Criminal Intelligence Service . |
| 6 | At 91 years of age , has just taken up painting water colours and choir singing at a local day centre in his home town of Hull . |
| 7 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 8 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 9 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 10 | Since the formation of the BWG and the LGWG , the administrative workers and the volunteers have set up their own autonomous groups , and Disabled Action has just taken off . |
| 11 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 12 | ‘ He could have just taken off . ’ |
| 13 | That baggage you 've just taken on to help in the bedroom wears one like that and ties her apron right up under her breasts till they nearly pop out , beggin' your pardon , Mr Timothy . |
| 14 | because you 've just taken on too much . |
| 15 | and old industrial buildings that they 've just taken over and when there 's a crisis in the housing , the state takes over the schools and uses them as refugee centres |
| 16 | that you 've just taken out . |
| 17 | Now , based on the information that you 've just taken down you need to give thought to the way in which you compile those . |
| 18 | I had just taken up my position behind the till of the kitchen gadget department and the store had been open only a matter of minutes when my first customer literally ran into view . |
| 19 | The article said the chairman of TV London had just taken up residence in the castle . |
| 20 | An argument developed because Mr Brown told her that the new chauffeur the company had just taken on could use her car while she was away , as the car that had been ordered for him had not arrived . |
| 21 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 22 | At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales . |
| 23 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 24 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 25 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 26 | Four Tornados had just taken off — heading in loose formation towards the North Sea . |
| 27 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 28 | The two-seater Chipmunk aircraft had just taken off when it unexpectedly veered sharpley back towards the runway . |
| 29 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 30 | Crane Holdings have just taken over Grey Rook PLC , which has a three year trading record . |