Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] have just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 2 | This driver has just returned from France , after managing to get through the blockade . |
| 3 | This mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 4 | This horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 5 | And this boy 's just opened the path . |
| 6 | Another flare had just burst above him . |
| 7 | Imagine that you are Doctor Lanyon and that this meeting has just happened . |
| 8 | One of our elders for example , is active as a governor of two schools ; another recently was elected a JP ; another works for his local Rotary Club ; another elder has just joined the now almost completely secular scout group . |
| 9 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 10 | This unit had just received a request from Colonel Keest in the Outer Hebrides for men to be taken off his hands . |
| 11 | This region has just suffered a smallpox epidemic , and Serapia works to teach the women about the risks of disease , and to teach them basic health care . |
| 12 | This section has just presented some statistical data on such differences . |
| 13 | I agree with what that lady 's just said . |
| 14 | Mm that 's what that girl 's just said to me you get a lot of erm , she said he 'll know it 's hard and I was saying that you know I , I put all me eggs in one basket with that , I mean that really knocked me for six |
| 15 | Crying , his duet with K D Lang , stormed to No 12 while I Drove All Night has just enjoyed a long Top 10 run . |
| 16 | The other replay tonight is a little bit closer to home at Peterborough to be precise , Peterborough against Blackpool , that game has just kicked off , no goals in that one at the moment . |
| 17 | In the period between the two maps , the former distortion has just faded out whereas the latter has amplified and migrated to become the significant cyclonic region at the south of Greenland in the second map . |
| 18 | So Mussy and that lot had just watched American Werewolf and they hear outside . |
| 19 | That amount has just passed £1 billion per annum for the first time , representing a real terms increase of 2.5 per cent . |
| 20 | Your own life has just begun , remember that . ’ |
| 21 | At the time this article was written , that company had just launched a bond at 8% for a life of five years . |
| 22 | Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool . |