Example sentences of "[pron] have just [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It would be good to see old England again and even if I did n't find her I could tell myself I 'd just tried that little bit . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've just seen all these Chinooks taking off . |
| 3 | She sighed , then said more briskly , ‘ But come in , and have a drink with me — I 've just made some fresh lemonade — and we 'll talk about the furniture . |
| 4 | My name 's Rory , and I 've just sailed this darn thing from Tennessee . ’ |
| 5 | I 've just got this sore throat and |
| 6 | I 've just got this crazy idea that … that somehow She 's out there … maybe … maybe in another form , another shape … |
| 7 | THE LAST ISSUE OF THE Boy 's Own fanzine ( a tone Merton is unaware of — ‘ I do like music a lot though , I 've just bought those new compilations of Julian Cope and Scott Walker ’ ) , lists ‘ posh farker humour ’ as one of the downs of ‘ 92 . |
| 8 | I 've just bought this little flask , I have no permit , and nobody asked for one . |
| 9 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just had some bad news , ’ William said . |
| 11 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just had this awful dream , ’ he announced to the class . |
| 13 | 122 miles you 've just pushed this seven and a half ton truck I believe yet what was the one moment that really stood out or really got you going ? |
| 14 | and the other difference being , instead of having the the control at the side for for drawing the blinds , you 've just got this simple er string . |
| 15 | Meeting his eyes , their expression now cool and shuttered , Luce wondered if she had just imagined that blazing look . |
| 16 | Laura had agreed while casting a wry glance up at the roof , on which she had just spent many thousands of pounds . |
| 17 | Until , in the end , Carrie began to think she must have made it all up , that she had just dreamed all those things he had said . |
| 18 | Poor Viola , she had just taken that indecent part for the money . |
| 19 | She had just found another large fly in the paradise of her perfect summer . |
| 20 | The Scottish stand-off , who was among the Lions replacements , was forced to parade , bouquet in hand , from behind one set of posts to the red carpet on the half-wayline as chaperone to Mireille Mathieu , the French songstress who had just rendered all three verses of the Marseillaise ( with the chorus repeated each time ) . |
| 21 | The style was a perfect foil to the fripperies of the cottage orné and displayed the serious character of its commissioner , Robert Sayer , who had just bought this large property and wanted to live in a modern house rather than the older one by the abbey ruins . |
| 22 | Squiffy everywhere and erm that night the evening activity was tobogganing and we 'd just finished all this wine . |
| 23 | We 've just had another six major cancellations . ’ |
| 24 | wi not an extortionate amount of wages and we 've just had this two hundred pound for the to be transferred to Mansfield . |
| 25 | We 've just got this one paragraph , before we go to the next sub-heading erm , then we 'll close there shall we ? |
| 26 | One man completely self-assured ( in the psychological sense ) is not a contradiction of what we have just said any more than what we have just said about uncertainty ( in the epistemological sense ) reduces all men to the level of mumbling irresolution . |
| 27 | ‘ They have just spent all that money on an aquarium and restaurant . |
| 28 | The memory was staggeringly clear , as though he had just heard those other bells , as though he were just surging forward in his final spurt , kicking for home . |
| 29 | This heartened D'Arcy , because he had just converted this former communist to Catholicism . |
| 30 | The whole family and Christian crowded around the young gipsy , congratulating him as though he had just achieved some major feat . |