Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] 's just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've heard of Marius Steen , bloke who 's just died ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He did n't know the correct etiquette for replying to a lady who 's just told you her recently-murdered husband was impotent . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oh who 's that geezer who 's just started who used to paint , can' think of the pop artist , Andy |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | I do , according to my best friend who 's just had a baby . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've captured a very gay hairdresser who 's just wet his pants . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You do n't look like a man who 's just escaped from a fire . ’ |
| 13 | says the man who 's just arrived ; |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ A neurotic , ’ he said , ‘ is a man who 's just worked out what 's going on . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | You look like a kid who 's just discovered Father Christmas does n't exist . ’ |
| 18 | A glider pilot who 's just won the right to work as an instructor , teaching others the beauty of unpowered flying . |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I feel like a prisoner who 's just got parole . |
| 22 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 23 | He looks like a night-shift worker who 's just woken up . |
| 24 | Like a three-year-old who 's just learned to write his own name , Marky Mark repeats his dozens of times . |
| 25 | We have another chap who 's just joined who is so shy , I mean Desmond knows him , and he 's contributing and sitting there and typing . |
| 26 | But it was n't OK and when I reached for my bishop , he 'd wave his arms over the board like a referee who 's just counted somebody out — and change his move . |
| 27 | I look at McDunn , the one friendly-ish face in here and the only one I can look at without feeling like a five-year-old who 's just wet his pants . |