Example sentences of "just [been] [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GOALKEEPER Aidan Davison , so his grandma tells us , has just been named the Millwall supporters ' player of the year . |
| 2 | And every parent has just been sent a letter — which claims ’ both Labour and the Liberal Demcrats have stated their intention to close down the remaining grammar schools . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you 'd just been made a director of this firm ? ’ |
| 4 | She realised , wearily , almost too tired to care , that she had just been made the butt of a joke . |
| 5 | The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago . |
| 6 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 7 | Have you just been given a position of more responsibility ? |
| 8 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be visiting the Victorian mansion that is n't finished yet , and has just been given a grant to ensure that it never will be . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 13 | Although the first British atomic bomb had only just been tested a month before at Monte Bello Island off the north-west coast of Australia , the British government , under Churchill 's leadership , decided remarkably quickly in December to follow the American lead and to build its own hydrogen bomb as soon as possible . |
| 14 | POSTSCRIPT : As I write I have just been handed a newspaper and I see that at the Court of Appeal in London on April 30th , the following transpired ‘ Trade Unions scored a notable victory in their fight to maintain collective bargaining yesterday when the Court of Appeal said employers had no right to discriminate against workers who refused to sign personal contracts ’ . |
| 15 | Mr Williams recently received the Lympus prize in his FRCO exams and has just been offered a place at the Royal Academy of Music to study organ performance . |
| 16 | Also , the trio have just been offered the chance of following in the footsteps of The Osmonds and The Jackson Five by allowing themselves to be made into a Saturday morning TV cartoon series . |
| 17 | David Solomons FCA , professor emeritus of the Wharton School of Accounting at the University of Philadelphia , has just been awarded the US 's top accounting honour . |
| 18 | Peter , inexperienced but the most likeable of colleagues , had just been shown the door . |
| 19 | Perhaps the Duke ( his temper not improved by his wife having just been refused the style of HRH ) thought that Baldwin had already done well enough out of the events six months before , without an entitlement to further expressions of fulsome goodwill . |
| 20 | I 'll tell you why cos the B B C there 's a directive just gone out I 've just been informed the B B C for quiz show hosts on the B B C to treat their guests with a little more civility . |
| 21 | They 'd just been told the George Hotel was n't important enough to be listed , but the protestors vowed to physically stop the demolition team if necessary and it looked as if they had the backing of the Planning Authority . |