Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think of the mother whose child has just fallen over and grazed his knee — what does she do ? |
| 2 | YOUR computer has just broken down . |
| 3 | After all this is the woman whose husband has just run off with Felicity Kendal . |
| 4 | The other replay tonight is a little bit closer to home at Peterborough to be precise , Peterborough against Blackpool , that game has just kicked off , no goals in that one at the moment . |
| 5 | On top of all that Prince Charles , heir to the throne and the man destined to become the Church 's supreme governor , has just split up with his wife and divorce looks likely . |
| 6 | ‘ The only thing that can be said is that somebody has just snuffed out a very special person who was going to achieve an incredible amount in life . |
| 7 | And erm I 've found out in , in our area in South Bank , the local hardware shop has just shut down . |
| 8 | Well , he has just flown about . |
| 9 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 10 | But thanks to some detective work by a helpful contact in Fiji , Alf traced his friends and has just flown out to see them . |
| 11 | She said , " Mary , a girl has just turned up here , she 's desperate ; she 's in Shaftwood Hotel , you know |
| 12 | He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’ |
| 13 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 14 | There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains . |
| 15 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
| 16 | My first book was an experiment to see if I could write and it has just gone on from there . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But this year he has just gone out and done the job . |
| 18 | A book about voodoo in Haiti written in the 1930s might seem an unlikely candidate for an NI Classic — especially since it has just gone out of print . |
| 19 | but er one of our major competitors has just gone out of business so we 'll get a spin off from that both in both in estates er and in the hotel scene so |
| 20 | The sun has just gone down . |
| 21 | Our business has just gone down and down , and now demand has run out . |
| 22 | I know my sister 's mortgage has just gone down . |
| 23 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 24 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
| 25 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 26 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 27 | AFTER 26 years our English Electric fridge has just packed up . |
| 28 | But the reason I have sat down so quickly is because the old man has just popped out on the northbound platform . |
| 29 | In the period between the two maps , the former distortion has just faded out whereas the latter has amplified and migrated to become the significant cyclonic region at the south of Greenland in the second map . |
| 30 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |