Example sentences of "'ve just [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've just missed the last bus .
2 Well , I 've just seen a new way forward
3 I 've just seen a big crane .
4 Right , okay , my boudoir , I 've just seen a few things together .
5 Afterwards as the plaudits for the winner died down , Homer confided in me : ‘ You 've just seen the best jockey since Jonjo O'Neill , ’ and who would argue with that assertion nowadays ?
6 In jumblespeech Meh'Lindi had reported , ‘ I 've just seen the Harlequin man .
7 ‘ I 've just seen the local paper , ’ Bridget said when she answered .
8 ‘ Fighting ships that were disguised as merchant vessels were known as Q-ships and we 've just done a straight lift from there , ’ she said .
9 ‘ Fighting ships disguised as merchant vessels were known as Q ships and we 've just done a straight lift from there , ’ she said .
10 ‘ It 's a bit of an aphrodisiac apparently , ’ I explained — ‘ which is tremendously useful when you 've just done a two-and-a-half hour show , driven 45 minutes home , eaten a baked potato the size of a human foot , scrubbed off two layers of greasepaint , nose shading , violet eyeshadow and seemingly permanent mascara , brushed one and a half cans of lacquer off the split ends , flossed the gums , massaged the bridgework , popped the ear plugs over the acupuncture needle , put the airplane mask over the anti-ageing eye cream and — pièce de lack of résistance — applied the ‘ Tonic Bust ’ to prevent anything descending further south during the night .
11 What you wan na do is I 've just done a seven day report on the er on hazard spotting etcetera etcetera etcetera and all the different surveys we 've had on the site over the past month .
12 Hyperoid It 's Asteroids by another name , again with some additions ( although I was never any good at this one , so maybe they 've just chopped a few levels out ) .
13 ‘ Call the newspapers , ’ she croaked , ‘ I 've just broken every bloody speed record in swimming .
14 The band have little spare time on their hands , they 've just completed a 50 date tour and have recorded a session for the Bob Harris Radio One show which goes out from Monday April 13th–16th , one song each night .
15 I 've just completed a 16,000 mile trip around the US , carrying a Dell notebook that weighed about 7lb , and believe me , the difference is impressive .
16 ‘ I 've just received an important telex .
17 They 've just reached the half way stage of the project but it 's taken them five years to get this far .
18 I 've just made a huge investment in this station and you call it a stunt ? ’
19 You 're not old nan you 've just lived a long time
20 ‘ And that did n't cause what you 've just called an international incident ? ’
21 Erm , there 's many suggestions I 've got here , where I 've just taken the necessary action in view of the procedures and I do n't feel that it 's necessary for us to discuss it , if you 're happy with that .
22 I 've just tried the local newspaper but Frank 's pal has gone out and they wo n't give me a contact number .
23 ‘ Because , ’ Polly said crisply , ‘ you 've just spent the entire day yelling at me , and telling me how slow , clumsy , and generally useless I am . ’
24 But , from Durham , Dick Wilkinson writes : ‘ I 've just spent the last half-hour with my arm down the toilet trying to unblock it .
25 Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands .
26 Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands .
27 Oh I 've just thrown a whole load of screwed up ones out .
28 Chuckball is a mixture of basketball and handball … invented in Switzerland its now taking a hold in this country … its a non contact sport but is played at a hundred miles an hour … and top dogs are Cheltenham 's Junior Team … they 've just won the European Championship … a big deal …
29 They 've just won the Southern Women 's Championships for the second time .
30 They 've just put a new piece of wood on the back .
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