Example sentences of "who [vb -s] just " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | If this is doubted , try to write a set of objectives , including criteria for assessment , for the psychological care of an elderly middle class lady who has just had a colostomy performed . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | What is your best excuse for a motorway policeman who has just caught you speeding ? |
| 35 | I frowned like someone who has just been put on the spot and is afraid of making a fool of himself . |
| 36 | A friend who has just seen a Don Ameche movie informs the local doctor of the plot : ‘ He worked in his basement discovering things . |
| 37 | Questions can be asked by The Speaker ( see below ) or the player who has just thrown ( or would have just thrown ) |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Margaret closed the briefcase with a click , like someone who has just completed a sale . |
| 40 | The child who has just been away from the room has to guess who is the murderer . |
| 41 | This is no time to hesitate , though , for however dazed , withdrawn , emotional , restless , irritable or distant she may seem , she is as urgently in need of help as someone who has just been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 42 | And Newton himself exudes the confidence of someone who has just had a shave and put on a fresh shirt . |
| 43 | Benjamin Braddock , who has just graduated with honours , flies back to his wealthy family in Southern California suburbia . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Inside , sits a diminutive man with a grey beard who has just celebrated his 90th birthday . |
| 46 | Have you captured a very tall American who has just stolen two million dollars ? ’ |
| 47 | Perspiration streams over the nearly-exposed breasts of Maxine Faulk , the hotel proprietress who has just buried her husband and wants to entice Shannon , a former minister , into her bed . |
| 48 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 49 | Floyd , who has just finished filming in the Far East and has his autobiography and a cookery book in the pipeline , plus a new TV series , dreams of getting away from it all . |
| 50 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 51 | They ran out of patience with £2.1 million record signing Fleck , who has just three goals all season , and sang ‘ What a load of rubbish ’ . |
| 52 | Coventry and Oldham are also in the hunt for Knight , who has just four League games under his belt . |
| 53 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 54 | KEEP AWAY FROM THE EDGE Anyone who has just missed a bus is experiencing stress , but will get over it quickly . |
| 55 | It 's like offering an elastoplast to somebody who has just been disembowelled . |
| 56 | In ‘ The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth ’ Tídwald says reprovingly to Torhthelm — who has just discovered his master 's headless body : |
| 57 | If you know someone who has just passed a very difficult music exam , for instance , you could celebrate their victory by decorating some of their exam piece with a few pressed flowers before framing it and giving it . |
| 58 | Robert Burke , a Hartley regular , is Bill McCabe , a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl . |
| 59 | But there is one glimmer of hope for Becky , who has just started school . |
| 60 | Each character is musically differentiated : the countess has two magnificently melancholic arias in which she laments the loss of her husband 's affection ; the count is portrayed as arrogant , cynical and menacing ; Figaro and Susanna are quick-witted , likeable , scheming and intelligent , able to give as good as they get , but both capable as well of jealousy and emotional suffering ; Cherubino is a confused adolescent who has just discovered sex but does n't know what to do with it . |