Example sentences of "who have just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
| 2 | A reasonable employer would not , for example , be entitled to instruct a man who has just resumed work following a major heart attack to undertake immediately a long and arduous period of foreign travel . |
| 3 | It was in the stale stink of the sports hall at Pont Llanfraith leisure centre that he at last looked like a loser : hands thrust deep in the pockets of his best suit , face set solid with emotion , like a football manager who has just lost the Cup Final . |
| 4 | Professor Garrow 's studies show that a 10-stone woman who has just lost 20lb can eat the same amount — without gaining weight — as a 10-stone woman who has always weighed that amount . |
| 5 | ‘ Damn ! ’ she said , like a tennis player who has just lost a point . |
| 6 | Miss Welty , who has just turned 84 , has her own way of writing . |
| 7 | MRS Daisy Burt , who has just turned 104 at her home in Chichester , W Sussex , says singing keeps her young . |
| 8 | The women 's world squash champion , Martine Le Moignan , and Jack Simmons , who has just retired from playing cricket for Lancashire at the age of 48 , receive the MBE . |
| 9 | VOLCANO by Shusaku Endo Sceptre , £4.99 JINPEI SUDA , a Japanese seismologist who has just retired , is convinced that the volcano Akadake , his obsession throughout his career , is dormant ; but Durand , a defrocked French Catholic priest , believes the volcano will erupt and sweep away the new Christian retreat being built on its slopes , as a sign of divine displeasure with Japan . |
| 10 | It was no secret that Mrs Thatcher was unenthusiastic about the appointment in 1983 of Mr Bernard Weatherill , who has just retired . |
| 11 | For the past few months , the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been trying , without success , to find a drawings curator to replace Jacob Bean , who has just retired . |
| 12 | Still hammering away , the Institute has the satisfaction of knowing that it has at last brought home to the Ministry of Health , within whose purview this question comes , that things are not what they ought to be , and Dr Eichholz , who has just retired from the Chief Inspectorate of Special Schools , is at its request making a special enquiry . |
| 13 | Kay Maskell who has just retired after many years as the Chairman of the Finance Sub-Committee has agreed to become one of our Vice-Presidents . |
| 14 | Maggie , in between numbers at a rock concert , talks to Laura about the young student who has just made love to her . |
| 15 | It could be achievement of a young child who has just made something . |
| 16 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 17 | A friend who has just seen a Don Ameche movie informs the local doctor of the plot : ‘ He worked in his basement discovering things . |
| 18 | At the very end of the movie Phar Lap a newspaper reporter in Australia seeks out trainer Harry Telford , who has just received news of the horse 's tragic end . |
| 19 | Another U2 character into home improvements is dapper urban cowboy BONO who has just received permission to build a huge swimming pool in the grounds of his mansion . |
| 20 | In researching the anatomy and posture of the beasts , the museum 's keeper of geology Tristram Besterman , was advised by specialists including the taxidermist Arthur Hayward , who has just completed ‘ Guy ’ , London Zoo 's famous gorilla , for the Natural History Museum . |
| 21 | Margaret closed the briefcase with a click , like someone who has just completed a sale . |
| 22 | The director of Knossos 2000 , Dr Ken Wardle , who has many years experience of digging in Greece and who has just completed the excavation of the prehistoric settlement of Assiros Toumba in Macedonia , commenting on the importance of the project , told The Art Newspaper , ‘ Apart from the potential of the site itself , the project will provide an opportunity to focus research on the history and archaeology of Roman provincial cities in Greece , which have largely been neglected in favour of those of the Classical and Hellenistic periods ’ . |
| 23 | We speak here of a man who has just completed a season in which he won four USPGA Tour events and more than $1,000,000 to finish second on the money list behind Greg Norman . |
| 24 | Last week Dr Feeney , who has just completed a lecture tour of the States , let it be known he would not be seeking the SDLP nomination to contest the Oldpark ward in North Belfast . |
| 25 | Richards , who has just completed his first year as the Welsh Rugby Union development officer for Mid-Wales , wants to see the representative side going from strength to strength . |
| 26 | For example , someone who has just completed a questionnaire ( at T 1 ) on nutrition may have a response to a film on food additives different from that which they would have had in the absence of the questionnaire . |
| 27 | Who has just declared that they will save the Colosseum ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 30 | He looked like a man who has just stepped into an empty lift-shaft . |