Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have just " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The kidnappers have just given us quite explicit instructions not to involve the police in any way , yet you claim that we can send a senior officer along on the pay-off itself without there being any risk ! ’ |
2 | But Edinburgh has begun to produce music of note : The Chimes have just celebrated their second number one on the Billboard dance charts , and Paul Haig has recently completed sessions with Curtis Mantronik and Lil Louis . |
3 | The goals have just dried up . |
4 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
5 | Unfortunately it may not be this World Cup , for the Scots have just a minuscule chance of qualifying . |
6 | The Cranberries have just released their debut EP . |
7 | I am her pupil , but I can not read what I have written , because the lights have just gone out and the glow of the electric fire has dwindled to nothingness . |
8 | Perhaps the practitioners have just considered problem-solving techniques as ‘ common sense ’ . |
9 | The Joneses have just been asked to find 15 years ' back rent along with the residents of the other 17 flats at Shire Court in Swindon . |
10 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
11 | Right , similarly at time T minus one we have Y , Y T minus one equals alpha plus beta X T minus one plus lander plus lander X T minus two , plus lander squared X T minus three plus X T minus four infinity again we call that B and that 's just the same equation but we just erm shifted the subscripts and right , this explains why in T , this ex explains why in T minus one right , all the subscripts have just been just been changed . |
12 | Er the appoi the governors have just made an appointment of erm to the headship of who 's the current deputy head , senior deputy at , he 'll be taking up his appointment er at Easter . |
13 | ‘ We do n't mind if the girls have just left school , or are still in school , whether they live outside the town or whether they are married , ’ said the committee member . |
14 | But the communicators have just as many , and their prejudices affected their accounts of the campaign . |
15 | ‘ I had been playing well since I returned from America , but the putts have just not dropped . |
16 | It is a little after breakfast and the Koons have just walked into their first scandal of the day . |
17 | ‘ Having been so close to winning the title in the past few years I thought this was going to be my chance but the draws have just dried up and I ca n't seem to get near fish , ’ said Dave from Hednesford , Staffordshire . |
18 | ‘ While the Danes have just legalised marriage between gay couples , the British have not progressed beyond the Oscar Wilde trial . |
19 | ‘ The Danes have just voted on exactly the same treaty . ’ |
20 | The men have just forty seconds to clear the plane or they miss the drop . |
21 | The men have just forty seconds to clear the plane or they miss the drop . |
22 | ‘ The police have just confirmed they 're holding Sykes . |
23 | The others have just been a job . |
24 | Apart from Saville and Mrs Parkins , who turn up bloody miles and miles away … the others have just vanished . |
25 | The reflectors , the mean here is at thirteen the average is thirteen they 're all slightly higher , so eighteen to twenty would be a very strong whereas the others have just come out fifteen to seventeen which is strong , you 've actually come out fairly strong there , because the highest score for anything is twenty . |