Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] just been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drove into the mouth of a carnivorous wave with the reckless abandon of a man who has just been given a week to live . |
| 2 | A couple of hours after drafting this , I receive a call from a local health visitor asking advice about a child who has just been diagnosed . |
| 3 | South Africa have named for the same job , not a professional journalist , but Dr. Nick Labuschagne , a man who has just been ousted as President of the Natal Rugby Union . |
| 4 | Ms Achtenberg is an avowed lesbian who has just been confirmed as an assistant secretary in the department of Housing and Urban Development . |
| 5 | He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed . |
| 6 | Robert Burke , a Hartley regular , is Bill McCabe , a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl . |
| 7 | It 's like offering an elastoplast to somebody who has just been disembowelled . |
| 8 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 9 | I frowned like someone who has just been put on the spot and is afraid of making a fool of himself . |
| 10 | ‘ That 'd be a clever trick for someone who 's just been blown up . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Oh God , every day it seems I 'm speaking to a mate who 's just been robbed , ’ said Woody , sometime Cross Key 's barman , in his thick Lancashire accent . |
| 12 | That 's the motto of an 82-year-old North Yorkshire woman who 's just been accepted into the Writers Guild . |
| 13 | He 's a very , very emotional , unstable dictator , who 's just been determined somehow to exploit his position geographically , in the Middle East , to try and emerge as a sort of mini superpower , and to that end , he 's done a lot of terrible things , of which the invasion of Kuwait was really only one . |
| 14 | Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in . |
| 15 | Now before Neil starts panicking and worrying about that , bear in mind that that is spread over the whole spectrum of operations , including things like heart transplants and the like , and also , for example , an elderly person who 's just been smashed up by er Astra G T E |