Example sentences of "[pers pn] has just [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosemary Reynolds ( Mrs Wolfson ) , a social worker , writes : ‘ My career has evolved through work with children and families , adoption and fostering , to my current work as a Guardian ad litem ’ , and she has just obtained a Diploma in Child Protection from London University . |
| 2 | To the linguist , it is clear at once that she has not really managed to speak JC , she has just made an imitation of it which might fool people not really familiar with that language . |
| 3 | She has just written a prayer letter and I quote from it . |
| 4 | She has just completed a year in the Gwelo Teacher 's Training College . |
| 5 | She has just completed a film shoot in France , with French dialogue ( ‘ I drove my family mad learning it ’ ) , and wants British audiences to see it . |
| 6 | She has just finished a portrait of seven-year-old Tulip Dempster , a Pekingese , commissioned by Lady Camilla for Nigel Dempster 's birthday — the second one she has done for the family — and a portrait of Mr and Mrs John Menzies ' two dogs . |
| 7 | The jackal thinks he has feasted on the buffalo when in fact he has just eaten the eyes , entrails and testicles rejected by the lion . ’ |
| 8 | Two of the best-remembered things in it are Emma 's adulterous drive in the curtained cab ( a passage found especially scandalous by right-thinkers ) , and the very last line of the novel — ‘ He has just received the Legion of Honour ’ — which confirms the bourgeois apotheosis of the pharmacist Homais . |
| 9 | He has just seen a prospectus in which the Government is offering for sale , shares in British Rail . |
| 10 | He has just completed a year with the Praetorian Guard . ’ |
| 11 | A keen sailor , he has just completed a course for yacht master offshore . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Barney sniggered then continued , ‘ Selwyn Hopkins told me he has just bought a motorbike . |
| 14 | A green Renault 18 , it has just rammed a car at the junction with A253 . |
| 15 | It has just become a reality . |
| 16 | For example it has just formed a partnership with Lotus , the computer software giant , to allow users of ‘ cc:Mail ’ the Lotus electronic mail system to send and receive messages while they are on the move . |
| 17 | Suppose it lowers the prices it is prepared to pay ; this will mean a capital loss to the discount house if it has just given a bank a price consistent with current yields . |
| 18 | The Bank is wooing retail investors ; it has just published a booklet on the virtues of gilts . |
| 19 | It has just launched a booklet ‘ The Case Against Tobacco Advertising ’ , which has been sent to all MPs and is endorsed by other charities , medical organisations , the Health Education Authority , NHS Authorities and Trusts and the trade union movement . |