Example sentences of "have just [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industrious biographer of Bernard Shaw has just completed the fourth volume , but it appears as if bricks , not books , will finish him off . |
| 2 | Pete Harvey has just broken the European endurance record … a flight of 300 kilometres … |
| 3 | An appeal for funds has just raised the first £100,000 , enabling the Museum to further improve the facilities offered to the visitors to this already fascinating centre of British aviation and motoring . |
| 4 | DEVELOPERS are planning to clone an historic Liverpool terrace which has just undergone the first phase of a multi-million pound facelift . |
| 5 | New Zealand television has just announced the impending demise of Punch . |
| 6 | ‘ My God , ’ she said , sounding a bit like a vicar who has just discovered the Third World , ‘ this makes one 's own problems seem pretty small , does n't it ? ’ |
| 7 | This was true even before the current wave of feminism ( Virginia Woolf in 1929 and Simone de Beauvoir in 1949 both marvelled at the huge volume of material on the subject ) ; contemporary feminism has just made the political implications easier to see . |
| 8 | Having more than his fair half-pennyworth is POGUES supergroupie MATT DILLON , who , we gather , has just directed the new video for DINOSAUR JR . |
| 9 | The company has just released the Interim Report showing the results for the first half of the current financial year . |
| 10 | André has just delivered the third baby this week . |
| 11 | Channi , Southall-based lead singer of Bhangra band Alaap , has just finished the musical soundtrack for film star Feroz Khan 's latest blockbuster , Yalgaar ( Attack ) . |
| 12 | Charles , who has just failed the first year of a law degree and is hard up , put up a notice on the fence : " Danger — Keep Out — No Liability Accepted . " |
| 13 | Cypress has just got the first silicon on the HyperSparc CPU , according to Electronic Engineering Times , and it 's reportedly almost completely functional . |
| 14 | Diana Campell , originator of special trimaran dinghy for disabled sailors , has just launched the updated Challenger II at Cowes . |
| 15 | A firm from Oxfordshire has just launched the latest equipment to help doctors find out more about heart and brain illnesses , but much of it wo n't ever be used in Britain . |
| 16 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 17 | It has just taken the unusual step of calling home its ambassador to Guatemala ‘ for consultations ’ . |
| 18 | Bowled over by their demo , Weatherall offered his remixing services and has just put the finishing touches to their delicious debut LP ‘ Breakdown ’ . |
| 19 | It has just considered the Annual Report which confirmed that between April 1991 and October 1992 there had been an increase of 10% in the number of single rooms in Adult Residential Homes throughout Lothian . |
| 20 | I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock . |
| 21 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 22 | I taxed him about it once when he 'd just dinged the rear corner of a new Porsche . |
| 23 | Though I 'd just had the official report , I wanted the inside story . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd just left the Royal Academy , I 'd just got the results of my finals . |
| 25 | Having just received the whole kingdom from him , they ca n't wait to get rid of him . |
| 26 | Two a.m. the next morning found me dragging my aching body and borrowed paste board back towards home , having just stuck the last piece in place . |
| 27 | She did not add that it had blood on it , although she knew that too , having just read the forensic report . |
| 28 | Nutty , having just thought the same thing changed her mind instantly . |
| 29 | And if anyone had noticed , maybe I could have just tossed the whole matter off in a casual way : ‘ Oh , that … it 's nothing much … ’ |
| 30 | I could have just bought the goddamned thing out of a coin machine in the men 's john . ’ |