Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] 's just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is Nigel erm and him and his girlfriend he 's just bought erm a maisonette down you know |
| 2 | He moves onto a review he 's just read of his book Eyes To The Hills , considers in detail the argument it follows and expresses frustration that his rigorous intellectual approach has been mistaken for pretension . |
| 3 | That section of the road , past the pub she 's just mentioned , was rerouted fifteen years ago . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 've heard of Marius Steen , bloke who 's just died ? ’ |
| 5 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 6 | He did n't know the correct etiquette for replying to a lady who 's just told you her recently-murdered husband was impotent . |
| 7 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 8 | Arms and fists raised like a footballer who 's just scored a goal , Austin Currie took his kudos , from the audience of 500 in the packed conference hall of the Slieve Donard Hotel . |
| 9 | Oh who 's that geezer who 's just started who used to paint , can' think of the pop artist , Andy |
| 10 | ‘ But not to a midget who 's just eaten my lunch and whom I 've subsequently insulted , who then turns out to be one of the world 's top dress designers . |
| 11 | In the other , the sort he 's just woken from , he becomes an eyewitness to terrible events he 's seen on TV . |
| 12 | I do , according to my best friend who 's just had a baby . |
| 13 | We make do with the dole and Ellie 's going in with a friend who 's just started a café which 'll help with the food . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've captured a very gay hairdresser who 's just wet his pants . ’ |
| 15 | What I 'm trying to do is chair a meeting and to prevent what happening what 's just happened when people start jumping up and shouting I do n't think that 's productive ways to chair any meeting or allow that to happen . |
| 16 | come and watch the news it 's just started |
| 17 | When Gilda heard what happened , she said , ‘ A man who 's just staggered out of a nasty relationship wants a bloody nursemaid at first , and then he wants to play the field for a bit . |
| 18 | You do n't look like a man who 's just escaped from a fire . ’ |
| 19 | says the man who 's just arrived ; |
| 20 | The man who 's just won an election usually thinks things have gone from to better and the man who 's lost it thinks they have gone from bad to worse . |
| 21 | ‘ A neurotic , ’ he said , ‘ is a man who 's just worked out what 's going on . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | You look like a kid who 's just discovered Father Christmas does n't exist . ’ |
| 24 | A glider pilot who 's just won the right to work as an instructor , teaching others the beauty of unpowered flying . |
| 25 | Yeah I was talking to her and she 's got this ma he 's not a spastic he 's just got such bad taste in music and he just plays it like it 's sort of like |
| 26 | As a PC depreciates faster than a catwalk model who 's just turned 30 , here are my tips for those of you who do n't want to lose your shirts : |
| 27 | A doctor who 's just returned from helping victims of the civil war in Somalia has been describing how the surgeon next to him was shot in the operating theatre as they were trying to save a patient 's life . |
| 28 | Alex Murphy 's incredulous comment — ‘ that 's the best winger in the world he 's just gone past ’ — nicely captured the audacity of the moment . |
| 29 | I think er what the county council 's position is in terms of the statement he 's just read out it is that er the county council strategic framework , the structure plan alteration number three , the high fly policy which we discussed yesterday , is an attempt to address the needs of the districts and if we 've got this right then sufficient land should be identified or allocated to the districts within Policy I five . |
| 30 | I feel like a prisoner who 's just got parole . |