Example sentences of "have just [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of State has just referred to the number of social workers . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend has just referred to the car industry 's exports during the past few years , and especially this year , which reflect the quality of the product and the improvements in manufacturing technology . |
| 3 | You have another country along that coast , Nigeria , which has just got to the stage where it 's got through its forest and it 's not exporting anything at all , if anything it 's importing . |
| 4 | The finch has just crashed to the floor of its cage with its wing clasped in its beak ( not for much longer , chickabiddy ) and I take it as an omen . |
| 5 | A castle has just reopened to the public after nearly four years of restoration work . |
| 6 | They 've just turned to the zone game after generations of the sweeper system . |
| 7 | Is the implication of what you 've just said to the Chairman that you agree with Mr Allenby that this animal is a different one than anything that might go to an I five site ? |
| 8 | Mr Abramson , of Shirley Road , Allerton , said last night : ‘ I had just gone to the off-licence to help my daughter Trudie while her husband went for his tea . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 10 | You see , I had just graduated to the position of providing a horse and cart , and any amount of people wanted that job so I would have lost it , maybe for good , if I had n't turned up . |
| 11 | WITH the ice cracking and groaning underfoot and the wind etching their faces , Robert Swan stood at the North Pole and turned to the woman for whom he had just walked to the end of the earth . |
| 12 | Many gins later , his guests had just come to the end of the petits fours when Wullie Robertson turned up , forcing his way into La Noblesse , looking like the wrath of God , or the son of some Pictish chieftain , and demanding , ‘ Hyacinth ! |
| 13 | Aikin notes that the cotton industry had just come to the town . |
| 14 | Vice-Admiral Hawkins , together with his two scientist friends , had just come to the bridge in response to Talbot 's invitation that they join him . |
| 15 | They had just got to the part about Dora 's Naughty Friend . |
| 16 | I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’ |
| 17 | He walked slowly back to his gallery-duties , by this time in the afternoon virtually non-existent — and had just got to the top of the stairs when he saw Gooseneck advancing towards him carrying a large package . |
| 18 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 19 | One night — I think it was the night before Christmas Eve — we had just returned to the cottage after a hard day next door doing some of the ‘ few finishing-off jobs ’ Nigel had earlier specified . |
| 20 | They had just returned to the courtyard and were about to examine the various outbuildings when they heard the sound of running footsteps . |
| 21 | Van Gelder had just returned to the bridge . |
| 22 | They had just returned to the flat after a long , lazy picnic in the September sunshine , to find Elise out . |
| 23 | Birkenhead , the chairman of the committee , which had produced rather limp conclusions , is reported to have broken an awed silence to announce that if the Prime Minister spoke to the House as he had just spoken to the Cabinet he would do so with unanimous support and triumphant outcome . |
| 24 | The right hon. Gentleman , who was a Treasury Minister throughout the lifetime of the Labour Government , will appreciate that figures such as those that I have just disclosed to the House would have been regarded as a complete impossibility in his time . |
| 25 | One by one they have just sunk to the bottom of the tank without any sign of ill health . |
| 26 | Right that 's just determined to the level at which I can go at this stage then . |
| 27 | It 's just attached to the letter . |
| 28 | ‘ This particular bird 's just come to the Zoo . |