Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] have just " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he values the entire UK direct sales market at about £1,000m , this means his association already represents 20% of the total — ‘ not bad ’ , he reckons , ‘ for an association that has just been launched ’ . |
| 2 | Commenting on the performance , Geoff Burns , a director of Murray Johnstone , said : ‘ We are pleased with the progress of the unlisted portfolio , with one investment that has just been floated and the prospect of two to come , including Stagecoach in three weeks ’ time . |
| 3 | What we were just saying Cath was , we was just trying to look at the , the tape that 's just come from Marcus , the erm the film and |
| 4 | The court heard only 72 cases in the term that has just ended , compared with twice that number a decade ago . |
| 5 | Players do not like setting down an instrument that has just become nicely warmed up , and taking up a cold one , unless there is a very good reason for it . |
| 6 | I picked up reasonable speed and had just about regained my composure when a hand appeared on my left shoulder from behind ! |
| 7 | From early next year she will be appearing on Channel Four 's Food File programme and has just completed a video about healthy eating the Mediterranean way . |
| 8 | I am pleased that , in the new settlement that has just been announced , we have secured an extra £9 million of capital funding for the higher education institutions . |
| 9 | The news editor suggested , ‘ Let's team it with this other hit-and-run story that 's just come in : two black kids , in a car out of control , ran over four children , who were hurt but not badly . |
| 10 | It has to fend for itself , out of a budget that has just about risen with inflation in recent years . |
| 11 | Is n't it British Gas ' Chairman that 's just had that enormous pay rise ? |
| 12 | Right now there was more danger in the strange , yielding weakness that had just taken her by surprise . |
| 13 | All three do their best under Penny Ciniewicz 's rather heavy-handed direction , but they can not beat a first play that has just got too much to say . |
| 14 | And if you live in the area , you could get involved with a new branch that 's just opened in that region . |
| 15 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 16 | At last , pulling herself together , she went to give Joanna and Helen a watered-down version of the scene that had just taken place — watered-down because , for some subconscious reason , she felt that Dawn 's story was not quite believable . |
| 17 | Before I knew what I desired , the desire itself was gone , the whole glimpse withdrawn , the world turned commonplace again , or only stirred by a longing that had just ceased . |
| 18 | He was also carrying £70,000 which he was depositing in a bank for payment for the work that had just been completed . |
| 19 | It is quite incredible what has happened in my life — the help that has just seemed to come , the opportunities that have arisen , doors that have opened in all directions and , if occasionally one closed , it did n't matter because it always meant a better one would open later . |
| 20 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 21 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 22 | This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit . |
| 23 | She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true . |
| 24 | Will my hon. Friend give greater and more sympathetic consideration to the question that has just been asked , because those of us who understand cask-conditioned ale — real beer — know that it is extremely damaging for it to be dispensed under pressure ? |
| 25 | We had driven back to the village and had just turned off the road on to the In Salah track . |
| 26 | ‘ … while I was in your gallery and had just told you I knew about the Durances . ’ |
| 27 | Sixteen-year-old Sara Freeman liked to spend Saturday afternoon shopping and had just discovered the new shop in Fulham Road . |
| 28 | In its Easter issue he calls the brat pack ‘ appalling creatures ’ , and has a particular go at David Cameron , a rather cold , in my experience unhelpful , young man who briefed John Major daily during the campaign and has just become special adviser to Norman Lamont . |
| 29 | Police were given a 15-minute warning by telephone and had just begun to clear the area . |
| 30 | I was waiting to go up to university and had just got a job as a prep-school master . |