Example sentences of "having just been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were sprinkled with pine needles , having just been engaged in decking out the hall with fresh sprays of evergreen . |
| 2 | Having just been named Donegal person of the year , it is clear that McEniff is climbing the ladder in the Donegal's-most-famous-son stakes . |
| 3 | Civilians , accompanied by RUC officers , can be seen moving away from the area , having just been evacuated from their houses . |
| 4 | But he was angry , having just been hauled over the coals by Kragan and Frick for not getting the Englishman to talk . |
| 5 | As they went inside , Jack Smith was roaring with laughter , having just been told an extremely rude story by one of the regulars . |
| 6 | He was seeing the evidence left by America 's policy of intervention , and , having just been told of Churchill 's agreement to Roosevelt 's demand for bases rights in Trinidad , found himself posing the question ; ‘ if Haiti 's isolation , poverty and tyranny after independence represented one lesson to West Indian colonials ’ , did it also pose another , … ‘ that West Indian colonials were destined to graduate from European colonialism to American ? ’ |
| 7 | Back in 1989 the England side was at an extremely low ebb , having just been humiliated 0–4 by Australia . |
| 8 | Perhaps the Duke ( his temper not improved by his wife having just been refused the style of HRH ) thought that Baldwin had already done well enough out of the events six months before , without an entitlement to further expressions of fulsome goodwill . |