Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 2 | This seems to be the view of Lord Donaldson , that truly sagacious Master of the Rolls , who has just called for a new corps of paralegal ‘ civil justices ’ to get people like me off the hook . |
| 3 | The CSIRO has just applied for a worldwide patent for its use as a fumigant . |
| 4 | The waif-like screen star , who in recent years has devoted her energies to helping the world 's starving children , has just pleaded for a week of peace in Bosnia to enable food to get through to the children there . |
| 5 | It 's a route he has just retraced for the character of Fergus , the IRA man who attempts to re-make his life in The Crying Game ] , an experience Jordan understands well . |
| 6 | And now , most intriguingly , a further recording of this timeless masterpiece by Annie Fisher dating from 1953 has just arrived for review ( more on that next month ) . |
| 7 | — that British Aerospace has just won for 20 RJ70s that is especially designed for the United States market and fills a niche that no one else could have filled ? |
| 8 | Without question Scotland will be looking to the three happy wanderers to form the backbone of their batting , along with Jim Love and George Reifer , who has just signed for Uddingston . |
| 9 | And having just fought for NCR , Mr Allen is unlikely to propose such a break-up . |
| 10 | I may even have just called for him and stood at the door . |
| 11 | She might very well have just arrived for all the notice he took of her . |
| 12 | me a pound after what I 've just done for you out there |
| 13 | ‘ I feel I 've just auditioned for the part of a human being and I did n't get the job . ’ |
| 14 | When in a hurry , or eager to try out the new software you 've just received for example , you might forget to validate the disks . |
| 15 | When in a hurry , or eager to try out the new software you 've just received for example , you might forget to validate the disks . |
| 16 | I 've just called for her money . |
| 17 | So after your walk , let the Japanese Ambassador know that you 've just walked for the whales — and why . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just come for the skirt your mum 's fixed for me , ’ she said . |
| 19 | The smallholding you 've just signed for ? |
| 20 | They also no doubt discussed the album of songs by Sir Noel that Ken had just recorded for HMV . |
| 21 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 22 | In the immortal phrase that heralds so many climbs , we had just gone for a look . |
| 23 | Dr Neil , who had just called for the bill , pulled out his watch , and said cheerfully , ‘ Oh , we have already missed it , McAllister . |
| 24 | At the same time , Coleridge 's mother in-law , Mrs Fricker , also seemed on the point of death at the house in Oxford Street , Kingsdown , that he had just found for Sara and himself on the north side of the city . |
| 25 | GARY Huntingdon , the Lib-Dem 's man in Sedgefield , had just arrived for a spot of canvassing in Chilton when he spotted four attractive women and two young children walking down the street . |
| 26 | Some further details of the poem were clearly borrowed directly from West Somerset : the harbour from which the mariner set sail can only be the little harbour at Watchet , the hermit 's woodland home the wood at Culbone , and the ‘ loud bassoon ’ , whose sound caused the wedding-guest to beat his breast , probably had its original in the bassoon which the vicar of Stowey had just provided for the Stowey church band . |
| 27 | He had just paid for the whisky when the door blew open , and a huge Irishman staggered into the establishment . |
| 28 | At a conservative estimate they had cost considerably more than she had just paid for her night 's lodging . |
| 29 | As I arrived , I met Anouska Hempel 's husband , the brilliant financier Sir Mark Weinberg , and later I had the pleasure of having their beautifully mannered nine-year-old son Jonathan , who had just returned for the summer holidays from Ludgrove , sitting next to me . |
| 30 | They may whine and cry ; sputter about everything ; not know what they want and are never satisfied , capriciously rejecting the things they have just asked for and such a temper . |