Example sentences of "have just [verb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industry is in no position to undertake a surcharge on its costs , and will probably reply , as it has just done on the question of arts funding , that industrial sponsorship is a supplement to government funding : it is not available as a substitute for it . |
| 2 | David has just ejaculated on the back seat ! |
| 3 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 4 | And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them . |
| 5 | I fiddle with my safety catch like I 've just finished on the firing range , and I lean back looking nonchalant because I 'm too weak to make a move . |
| 6 | I was kneeling down and you had just fallen on the floor . |
| 7 | And she had just turned on the TV , hoping for a late news-programme , when she heard the light knock on her bedroom door . |
| 8 | The auctioneer , Harry Pickering , came into the room and announced he had just heard on the wireless that the King had died . |
| 9 | Glancing round , I saw I had just passed on the roadside a farm cottage — from which a young woman in an apron , her attention no doubt aroused by the horn , had come running . |
| 10 | The subject was a book I had just published on the history of the world over the past 60 years . |
| 11 | Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it . |
| 12 | He turned to look at Denholm who had just arrived on the bridge . |
| 13 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 14 | Andrea Godfrey , 25 , who comes from Darlington and works for a London-based advertising agency , said : ‘ I had just got on the train when I heard this tremendous bang . |
| 15 | She 's just she she she 's just said on the phone , I was so shocked she got honours . |
| 16 | It 's just superimposed on the bottom . |