Example sentences of "[vb past] just [been] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 3 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 4 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 5 | It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests . |
| 6 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 7 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |