Example sentences of "have just [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 2 | He 'd just spoken to Detective Inspector Balfour in his hole on the Foulness road , but there was n't much news on that front . |
| 3 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 4 | I 've just walked to school for fucking nuffink I have n't got a lesson |
| 5 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 6 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 7 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 8 | He and his wife had just gone to bed . |
| 9 | On another occasion , Mr Reynolds had just gone to bed when he had the feeling that there was a fire on the site . |
| 10 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 11 | In fact on the day they signed the contracts with Wonderland for the King 's Hall they had just gone to No 1 in the charts with their new album . |
| 12 | The Council had just agreed to rehouse women who stayed there , and had promised larger , more permanent premises for the Refuge itself . |
| 13 | It was n't only the words she had just used to Marguerite . |
| 14 | One major bank robbery had just come to trial . |
| 15 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 16 | Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten . |
| 17 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |
| 18 | Alternatively , they might pause in order to connect the material they have just read to material they had read earlier in the text . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ Carrie stammered , ‘ she 's just gone to sleep , ’ and Hepzibah nodded and touched her chin lightly and lovingly and said , ‘ I 'd best go to her then , you stay here with Albert . ’ |
| 20 | He 's like a dictator who 's just come to power and does all the awful violent things at once , like changing the laws and murdering people and confiscating everything — then later on it 'll all be taken for granted and he can play at being kind and good . ’ |