Example sentences of "have just come [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’ |
| 2 | But this has just come on . |
| 3 | There 's a very interesting issue has just come up actually 'cause we 're having this fashion show . |
| 4 | He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me . |
| 5 | We catch up with Sue , a 52-year-old mother of four — wearing pigtails and painted-on freckles — whose divorce has just come through . |
| 6 | The last letter , bearing the date of 8 June , read : ‘ My heart is very full this evening — a letter from you has just come in , and that brings you even closer to me . |
| 7 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 8 | ‘ You know someone has just come in downstairs . ’ |
| 9 | Apologetically she added , ‘ Someone I do n't like much has just come in , that 's all . ’ |
| 10 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 11 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 12 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 13 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
| 14 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 15 | Paul Langford 's ‘ A Polite and Commercial People , England 1727–83 ’ has just come out in paperback ( Oxford , £10.95 ) . |
| 16 | And another of them has just come out after doing time for burglary . ’ |
| 17 | One has just come out of prison after doing two years for bodily harm . |
| 18 | It has just come out with Networker for 80386 machines supporting Santa Cruz Unix and MS-DOS and will include UnixWare in the same ClientPak II later . |
| 19 | It would be ideal , he thought , for commuting between Oxford and Holland Park , where most of the novel-writing gets done ( Monkeyshines was recently filmed by George Romero ; Birthright has just come out ) . |
| 20 | WHAT promises to be a good video has just come out — but do n't go to your local hire shop for a copy as it 's a BNFL production . |
| 21 | There is draft er , legislation , a draft circular has just come out , which makes quite clear beyond any doubt that we are required to treat the inspection of our facilities exactly the same way as the independent sector . |
| 22 | The peasants , having just come out to the fields , turn back , uttering loud cries . |
| 23 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 24 | Apart from that , though , the whole crew might have just come in from Ellis Island Caduta herself was clearly the queen bee here . |
| 25 | I 've just come over to tell yer … you 've not switched yer lights one . |
| 26 | Well erm , I 've just come up and and the accident so I 'm only entitled to money for the first four days . |
| 27 | It 's where we 've just come up er but you turn left . |
| 28 | The first freshers ' dinner I went to in Oxford — this is where the the people who 've just come up erm are introduced to college life and so on — erm the amount that 's allocated to each student is two sherries before dinner , three or four glasses of wine , different wines , with dinner and then something or other — port — after dinner . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've just come along to fulfil his prophecy . ’ |
| 30 | And here you are , in your own house , and looking like you 've just come out of solitary . ’ |