Example sentences of "have been just [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the nature of a revelation but like all revelations , she thought , it has been just below the surface of my mind , lingering unrecognised , waiting , and now I see it and it is a familiar friend . |
| 2 | In fact the staff response has been just below average with legal and financial worries being main areas of concern . |
| 3 | And , as the hairs on head and body are all at different stages of the hair growth cycle , waxing does not always mean that some hair does n't grow back quickly — it may have been just under the skin just waiting to pop out ! |
| 4 | ‘ And the other boots would have been just inside the baize door as usual , ’ said Ethel thoughtfully . |
| 5 | I was about eleven at the time , it must have been just after the war . |
| 6 | Well , and I went to Ipswich well it must have been just after the war then |
| 7 | ‘ It would have been just like Chris to hide the Grimoire down there , ’ Donna said , pointing towards the abyss beyond the steps . |
| 8 | It would have been just like her to take a method like this to exact a petty revenge for their disagreements , landing Folly with a pile of unwanted stock that she could n't refuse without souring relations with her supplier . |
| 9 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 10 | He knows exactly what she means — he was brought up in a street that might have been just round the corner . |
| 11 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 12 | ( In the 1989 election the FL , with 7.56 per cent of the vote , had been just below the minimum 8 per cent necessary to win representation ) . |
| 13 | She had been just in time . |
| 14 | It had been just after Christmas ; she had worn a new pair of fur mittens her sister had given her . |
| 15 | Sara 's best years , Slater continued , had been just after leaving school . |
| 16 | The previous X-ray of my lungs had been just before my operation in March . |
| 17 | The occupational structure of the village was very different from what it had been just before the Civil War when the parish register entries had briefly given men 's occupations ; between 1636 and 1639 Thurmaston 's register noted 8 labourers , 5 shepherds , 3 husbandmen , 2 innkeepers , 2 masons , 2 male servants , a carpenter , a miller , 1 curate , a weaver , a tailor , a shearman , a spinner and a mole catcher . |
| 18 | You can tell she 's in a good mood from the number of bitchy remarks : from Glenys Kinnock 's dress sense ( ‘ Silly girl to be wearing Yves Saint Laurent ’ ) to the election campaign ( ‘ It 's been just like an American election : no ideas ’ ) to John Major 's now certain victory ( ‘ It 's conserved everything we 've stood for ’ — we , doubtless , in the sense of I ) . |