Example sentences of "have just been [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore simplest to interpret these results in terms of an inability to remember that food has just been obtained from a particular arm . |
| 2 | Well , that very technological breakthrough has just been made by a British company . |
| 3 | From the children 's point of view , what they really want to get out of a project is precisely the content which , for teachers , has just been relegated to a secondary position . |
| 4 | Though the apolitical villain was fairly quickly apprehended , Churchill 's portrait has just been discovered in a police raid on a suspected handler . |
| 5 | This book is also different to ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ because there are no racist scenes , only prejudice towards Imamu from both the Police and in some cases the Aimsleys , when their daughter goes missing and they think that because he is a street boy who comes from Harlem , a lower class area than Brooklyn and that he has just been acquitted on a murder rap , he 's got something to do with Perk 's disappearance . |
| 6 | Man Of Ross has just been chosen as a demonstration farm by an organization called LEAF … |
| 7 | No Man 's stunning version of ‘ Colours ’ has just been released as a single on Probe Plus . |
| 8 | No Man 's stunning version of ‘ Colours ’ has just been released as a single on Probe Plus . |
| 9 | The report , originally prepared last year by the government 's National Audit Office as a quick swot of the services offered by London 's top galleries and museums , has just been circulated as a final draft ; it is due for submission to Parliament shortly . |
| 10 | Llangoed Castle , in Wales , which the owner had been determined to demolish , has just been transformed into a hotel by Sir Bernard Ashley , husband of Laura . |
| 11 | He has just been pulverized by a being from the other side of the galaxy and what does he do ? |
| 12 | ‘ The look on your face was like a naughty schoolgirl who 'd just been caught with a stolen pie . |
| 13 | When Creed called , Jed was watching a news report about a vulture who 'd just been arrested on a murder charge . |
| 14 | You 've just been appointed as a care assistant . |
| 15 | no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught . |
| 16 | A TEENAGER and three of his pals died when he crashed the car he had just been given as a present . |
| 17 | He had no income when he married The Maid of Bath , the singer Miss Linley , but he used the £3,000 she had just been given by a disappointed but grateful , rich admirer , to buy a grand house in London 's fashionable Portman Square , and furnish it lavishly . |
| 18 | She had just been shaken by a ‘ terrible adventure ’ . |
| 19 | But her terrifying three-hour ordeal ended when police overpowered Khamton Omvaree , in his thirties — who had just been freed from a 10-year sentence under a royal amnesty . |
| 20 | From 1966 to 1969 he was a fellow of Balliol College , Oxford , and had just been appointed to a readership at the time of his death . |
| 21 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 22 | 30th March 1808 ‘ saw a woman on Blackfriar 's Bridge who had just been killed by a horse which had run away — the horse was stopped just about half way between that market and the bridge , drank tea and supped with Mr. Hills — Mr. Pyne was there — met Mr. Reinagle ’ . |
| 23 | Sergeant Elie Tardivel tells how in June seven men from a neighbouring platoon had just been killed by a single French 155 shell . |
| 24 | By 1923 , the rise of the Saudi Kingdom presented a new threat to stability , and so a convention fixed the border between the emirate of Kuwait and Iraq , which had just been created under a British mandate . |
| 25 | They had just been moved into a new milking shed and they were in completely strange surroundings . |
| 26 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |
| 27 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 28 | It had just been wiped by a sullen black woman in a nylon overall , from whom the sergeant tried in vain to extract a smile , and the police officers sat back to allow it to dry before resting their elbows on the surface . |
| 29 | Its functioning power had just been reduced by a factor of one . |
| 30 | A recent survey of 50 management experts who 's conclusions have just been published in a new Women in Management report . |