Example sentences of "have just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie , in between numbers at a rock concert , talks to Laura about the young student who has just made love to her . |
| 2 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 3 | Her recent television credits include leads in the series Buccaneer , The Professionals , The Consultant , Into the Labyrinth , Lytton 's Diary , Magnum , Seagull Island , and her film credits include The First Great Train Robbery , The Bitch , Morecambe and Wise 's Night Train to Murder , Miss Moneypenny in Never Say Never Again , Universal City , After Darkness , and she has just completed Salome , playing Herodias . |
| 4 | Britain has just eight statutory days off . |
| 5 | The hotel has just completed its first year of operation , which it celebrated with a month-long daily cake-cutting ceremony . |
| 6 | YOUR computer has just broken down . |
| 7 | The company has just added Flute Penne — ridged tubes which are ideal for trapping sauces — and Conchiglie Tricolore ( shells ) to its range . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , sorry to disturb you both , ’ he said , warily , ‘ but someone from the Senate has just rung up , Charles . |
| 9 | Age Concern England 's briefing paper , Pensioner organisations in England , has just been revised . |
| 10 | The sentences must have a rise and full , an ability to flow onwards with pauses for breath , like full stops , or a moment 's silence for the onlookers to assess what has just been stated and to understand its purpose and place in the design before the dance continues . |
| 11 | That other well known Peak raider , Ben Moon , the real king o'Crookrise , has just repeated Jerry Moffatt 's testpiece of last year , Liquid Amber at L.P.T , confirming grade and quality . |
| 12 | My youngest girl has just been operated on and I could n't believe she only had two stitches . |
| 13 | He has just walked out into a spectacular summer storm . |
| 14 | Porfiry 's words have a heightened transpersonal effect because Svidrigailov has just told Raskolnikov the same thing . |
| 15 | Raskolnikov uses the blade of his axe on her , whereas he has just used the back of it on the older woman , crushing her skull . |
| 16 | Industry is in no position to undertake a surcharge on its costs , and will probably reply , as it has just done on the question of arts funding , that industrial sponsorship is a supplement to government funding : it is not available as a substitute for it . |
| 17 | All three do their best under Penny Ciniewicz 's rather heavy-handed direction , but they can not beat a first play that has just got too much to say . |
| 18 | If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something . |
| 19 | She sits at the marriage banquet , apparently in a cafe , and the harlequin has just presented her with a bouquet . |
| 20 | This seems to be the view of Lord Donaldson , that truly sagacious Master of the Rolls , who has just called for a new corps of paralegal ‘ civil justices ’ to get people like me off the hook . |
| 21 | Inside the man-made cavern , located 100ft up the side of a cliff , an archaeological survey team found a hastily-written message recording that ‘ Joezer ( the priest ) has just been killed ( or wounded ) . |
| 22 | He said the parish , which has just 100 people on the electoral roll , would have been swamped by the new town . |
| 23 | INTERVIEW / Academician in peril : John Cale , Velvet Underground graduate , has just written an orchestral suite . |
| 24 | Motoring : The soaring triumph of the exotic Stag : Blow all your savings on a rare classic convertible which has just started to show a major rise in value , says Roger Bell |
| 25 | I was banned , however , not because I am a convicted criminal , I think — like the unfortunate Simon Hayward — but because I wanted to wear a false nose out of consideration for the feeling of my associate , Mark Chapman , who , as I explained last week , has just had an inch and a half lopped off his . |
| 26 | The BEC has just doubled the amounts covered by its scheme . |
| 27 | MARYSE BOXER designs simple but beautiful tableware and has just added ‘ Dorado ’ , with simple gold leaf decoration to her collection . |
| 28 | Her latest book The Truth about Lorin Jones ( Abacus , £3.99 ) has just been published in paperback . |
| 29 | She invites me into the living room , pours me a coffee , sits down beside me , slips her shoes off and groans about the working day she has just been through . |
| 30 | At least those present will have the comforting knowledge that they will be voting on the future of a team which has just ascended the summit of the Scottish Second Division , although that must be considered more of a Ben Nevis than an Everest of the football world . |