Example sentences of "just been [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Elizabeth Campbell , sixteen , gentle , interested in poetry , cuddly , was discussing the matter of her marriage , which had just been broken to her at dinner by her father , Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , King James the Fourth 's Lieutenant of the Isles , chief of Clan Diarmaid ; and her teeth , which were indeed passable , were much in evidence . |
| 2 | The fact was that his own heart had grown irresistibly fond of the love of his life , Senora Isabel-Maria Estanguet de Moss , whose husband had just been posted to the Argentinian Embassy in Brussels . |
| 3 | The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount . |
| 4 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 5 | Do they do this purposely cos that man 's just been sent to prison the same thing is n't it ? |
| 6 | He was giving me 40 minutes on all matters transport and 10 had just been forfeited to the interests of the constituents of Derbyshire . |
| 7 | And that that guy has just been transferred to another group so you know we 're now one short well in fact we 're three or four short up in Scotland so . |
| 8 | It so happened that when John approached the manager and his wife they had only just been moved to the pub with the brief to try and improve relations between the pub and the local community . |
| 9 | From the children 's point of view , what they really want to get out of a project is precisely the content which , for teachers , has just been relegated to a secondary position . |
| 10 | However , if he 's left alone for a minute it feels like an hour to him , he can not remember what has just been said to him , therefore he will repeat himself endlessly , and he has no frame of references to enable him to take part in any kind of conversation . |
| 11 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 12 | From 1966 to 1969 he was a fellow of Balliol College , Oxford , and had just been appointed to a readership at the time of his death . |
| 13 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 14 | We ca n't look into it because it 's only just been given to us . |
| 15 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 16 | Charles felt a bit starchy in battle dress which had only just been issued to the TA . |
| 17 | Buckingham Palace has just been opened to the public , and several hundred people , ready to fork out the £8 ( $12.50 ) admission charge , wait patiently . |
| 18 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 19 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 20 | So it will help to keep your Bible open at the passage which has just been read to us , from the ninth chapter of the gospel according to Matthew . |
| 21 | just been lectured to . |
| 22 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 23 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 24 | One 's just been handed to me here , Christine from Derby says I 've kept cats for twenty years and taught them loads of tricks . |
| 25 | For example , we want to be able to take knowledge gained from studying the free recall of nonsense syllables and make predictions about our ability to remember things like telephone numbers , or the names of people we have just been introduced to at parties . |
| 26 | " Take the Tran family over there who 've just been introduced to your father , for instance . |
| 27 | Second was the husband of Mrs Chapple ; Mrs Chapple had just been admitted to hospital and seemed unlikely to return home : |
| 28 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 29 | It was no accident that when I was writing this , the Conservatives had just been returned to power in the 1983 election , and one of their first moves was to try to disguise popular discontent with the police by the restoration of the rope . |
| 30 | I understand that these applications have only just been submitted to Midlothian District Council as the local planning authority and I have to advise you that it would not be appropriate for Regional Council officials to comment publicly at this stage . |