Example sentences of "have just [verb] a [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 She has just completed a year in the Gwelo Teacher 's Training College .
2 We speak here of a man who has just completed a season in which he won four USPGA Tour events and more than $1,000,000 to finish second on the money list behind Greg Norman .
3 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 .
4 Some ads will be irrelevant : the viewer or reader is not in the target group , or has just made a purchase in that product group and does not want another just yet .
5 He has just seen a prospectus in which the Government is offering for sale , shares in British Rail .
6 By 1030 hours the Wall patrol has completed its escort task and is free to assist an Engineer Corporal who has just had a collision in his car with an East German in the Soviet Sector .
7 That man with a beard has just had a breakdown in London 's Burning .
8 We 've just done a fortnight in the States promoting this region erm to the agents of the erm people who , you know , really book holidays , and one of the things that emerged more than ever was this comradeship , you know , we are together in this erm and what a great country you 've got over there .
9 He rates the rush he gets from Ecstasy very highly : ‘ It 's like you 've just scored a goal in a football match for three hours . ’
10 I know what I 've got the find , oh god it 's alright , I 've just taken a look in here it 's like a bomb !
11 Sergeant it 's P C Garfield , Sergeant Huddersfield and myself are at the Riverside Hotel , we 've just found a body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe room one O nine , well could you describe him ?
12 when they 've just had a call in , to start on Monday .
13 She had just done a course in assertiveness and when she was unkind ( which she was often ) she would say , ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry ’ , and then ‘ No , actually I 'm not sorry ! ’
14 Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard .
15 Ben and I had just given a recital in Vienna .
16 Ten years ago Eddie Murphy was aged 19 and had just left a job in a shoe store to start on Saturday Night Live , playing a variety of characters including Buck Wheat , Mr. Rogers and Velvet Jones .
17 How convenient women were , Rupert thought , accepting her offer , the way they were always ‘ just going ’ to make coffee or tea or perhaps had just roasted a joint in the oven or made a cheese soufflé .
18 Ivy looked well and had just had a holiday in a private hotel [ Broome Park , once the property of Lord Kitchener ] in Kent .
19 The Australian representative of the Mission , who drove me to the Southern Cross Hotel in Sydney , explained that the Mantela , a Sanderstown boat of 5,000 tons which normally plied between the islands , had just finished a refit in Sydney and was about to sail two days after my arrival .
20 He and wife Margaret have just enjoyed a holiday in America and hope to return in October .
21 I have just rung a colleague in the Electricity Division of the Department of Energy .
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