Example sentences of "'ve just [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just been made redundant after 30 years as an engineer with British Telecom . ’ |
| 2 | You 've just been made to sit in this room for three hours . |
| 3 | Yeah , you 're told you 're going and we spend the first day overcoming barriers to the fact that they do n't know why they 're there , they 've just been sent and it 'll be good for you , you know this sort of stuff . |
| 4 | ‘ Ca n't think why , Carrots , I 've just been steamrollered . ’ |
| 5 | Erm We 've just the they 've just been altered actually |
| 6 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 7 | you 're going to work in there , you 've just been given a , your , your standard value which is gross , thousand and thousand of dollars , now how are you going to spend that money that you 've got for |
| 8 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 9 | Before Rachel was born I bought about six stretchsuits , and I 've just been given 12 more but I have n't had to spend much on her clothes yet because I 've had so many presents . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been given some great news . |
| 11 | That 's right section three , it should be blank at the moment except for what you 've just been given . |
| 12 | We 've just been overcharged for this sandwich . |
| 13 | ‘ Tommy , you 've just been cautioned for the murder of … ‘ |
| 14 | You 've just been appointed as a care assistant . |
| 15 | These are the people to whom , for example , you write if you 've just been appointed liquidator of a company and want to get its VAT payments sorted out . |
| 16 | no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught . |
| 17 | ‘ I have a feeling I 've just been conned , Father . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just been robbed ! |
| 19 | as if I had n't been through enough today , I 've just been dubbed your plaything of the week — ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've just been asked to take over a leading role in a production that 's been playing in Stratford which they 're taking to the Barbican . |
| 21 | but , sort of like er , erm its like so , some of those paintings of the wraps and beautiful boat , they look as if they 've just been photographed , they looked as if they 're a photograph not a oil , oil painting . |
| 22 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 23 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 24 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 25 | " Take the Tran family over there who 've just been introduced to your father , for instance . |
| 26 | P.S. I 've just been informed it 's arrived . |
| 27 | I 'll tell you why cos the B B C there 's a directive just gone out I 've just been informed the B B C for quiz show hosts on the B B C to treat their guests with a little more civility . |
| 28 | That 's a sprinter 's example , but it 's the same for any athletic performance , as I 've just been reminded by watching the astonishing improvement of Ray Davidson in these past few years . |
| 29 | Simply in light of the the vote that we 've just been held ? |
| 30 | The danger of approaching whole group work by letting children first improvise in small groups and then presenting them with an issue which you hope will give them a focus is that they remain more interested in what 's going on in their group than in the supposedly unifying issue : " Why should I be interested in the corner shop being knocked down when I never use it , and anyway we 've just been burgled ? ! " |