Example sentences of "have just been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen Brown has just been head-hunted from Alcan as new managing director and ‘ heir apparent ’ . |
| 2 | My cat has just been sick again . |
| 3 | ‘ Church has just been sick again , ’ Finlayson said , ‘ partly over me ’ |
| 4 | The graveyard wall itself has just been spray-painted — the colour is barely dry on a five-foot-high blue swastika , and the artists have not taken time to dot the i's on the words DEAD YIDS INSIDE . |
| 5 | Cos say I was looking for angles and that would 've just been fifty up here would n't it . |
| 6 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 7 | Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster . |
| 8 | Penelope Huntley let go of it anxiously and said no , that it was perfectly fine , she 'd just been cold outside . |
| 9 | If Osman Abdelal and his sisters had climbed the furthest hill to the north , they might have just been able to see Mrs Zamzam 's refugee camp at Rashidiyeh . |
| 10 | I 've just been round to see Mrs Reynolds in the village , and she 's adamant that all the kitchen and scullery windows were closed when she left at nine-thirty . |
| 11 | ‘ I think you 've just been unlucky . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Then perhaps I 've just been unlucky with the ones I 've met . ’ |
| 13 | It would mean I mean we 've just been involved with one of the hospital because there 's an audit commission report on costs to hospital services . |
| 14 | They 're not actually erm , using the D S O , and I 've just been involved in the |
| 15 | I 've just been involved in the selection of caterers for erm , South Wilts Grammar School , and I 've got to say , and I 've told Mr this , because he criticised me , Concept Catering were n't in the le in the frame . |
| 16 | I 've just been lucky so far , touch wood . |
| 17 | I 've just been bad . |
| 18 | The full significance of this fleeting moment is only evident when the letter page of HBR reveals a bitter contest over screen design between American Airlines , the developers of the system , and trans Atlantic competitors ; ‘ a chief legal officer of a major international airline … had just been involved in a long , rancorous struggle to get its non stop flight from Europe to the United States off the 23rd of SABRE 's 23 possible screens ’ ( HBR , July-August 1990 : 176 ) . |
| 19 | Once there had just been Trocchi drawing on the group 's ideas , there had been the sTigma exhibition in Better Books in 1965 , the obituary of Andrée Breton — one of the group 's intellectual roots — by Jean-Jacques Lebel in the first It fourteen months earlier . |
| 20 | Then , glancing up and seeing her face , unexpectedly got up , as quick and full of energy as he had just been lethargic ( but it was the energy of anger ) and came out with her into the hall , where Philip , frail as a leaf , was standing by the great dark-grey water tank . |
| 21 | She noticed that his hair had scissor marks in it , as if it had just been dry cut . |
| 22 | ‘ Nelly the Elephant ’ had just been chorus-interruptus as she was saying goodbye to the thingy , and a large girl in her mother 's dirndl skirt from IIIB was attacking the string round the paper with her teeth and pretending not to hear that the music had started again , when I felt the red drain out of my skirt and into my face . |
| 23 | The Ridgery was still in view but they were now much further from it and Ridgery Butts was well behind them almost out of sight ; Allen had just been able to see the church tower . |
| 24 | My brother , sister and I have made lots of friends whilst we have been down there , but it only really started to fascinate us from about 2 or 3 years ago , before then we had just been interested in swimming , going into the amusements and going to the beach etc . |
| 25 | ERNIE 's just been down-rated by the way to reduce the ou the , the ac the average now is less than seven percent . |
| 26 | It 's just been such an awful couple of days . ’ |
| 27 | It 's just been such , it 's obviously been a thing that affected the whole community |
| 28 | He 's just been nice to me . ’ |
| 29 | and it 's just been another seven years you 've been able to work |
| 30 | Yeah , luckily enough she 's just been able enough to do her own thing ai n't she ? |