Example sentences of "they [vb base] just [been] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Funnily enough , that 's been one of the nice things about Harwich : people have n't overburdened everything with all my troubles and they 've just been themselves . |
2 | People ring up about the match they 've just been to and complain or say who they think should be the next England manager , etc . |
3 | Measuring by the impressive stint of ‘ Winona ’ in the indie charts , luck and genuine love is with Drop Nineteens , so maybe by staying away they 've just been incredibly clever , holding back 'til the slaying 's stopped . |
4 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
5 | They 've just been terrorizing us and taking our money to protect us from themselves ! ’ |
6 | Yeah , you 're told you 're going and we spend the first day overcoming barriers to the fact that they do n't know why they 're there , they 've just been sent and it 'll be good for you , you know this sort of stuff . |
7 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
8 | Erm We 've just the they 've just been altered actually |
9 | They 've just been |
10 | but , sort of like er , erm its like so , some of those paintings of the wraps and beautiful boat , they look as if they 've just been photographed , they looked as if they 're a photograph not a oil , oil painting . |
11 | Yeah , it looks as if they 've just been sort of put in in a heap |
12 | no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught . |
13 | Yeah well th cos they 've been waiting up there on the thing and they 've land or they 've just been circ |
14 | I feel an opting-out system would be probably less distressing to the donor 's relatives ( who may find an approach for donation insensitive when they have just been told of an — often — unexpected death ) . |
15 | He went on : ‘ They are normally engaged in planning non-emergency journeys but since there have not been any it was felt that they have just been sitting around socialising when others are working long hours . |
16 | The lecture theatre resonates like a drum with the chatter of a hundred-odd students , all talking at once , as if they have just been released from solitary confinement . |
17 | For they have just been faced with the prospect of losing £1 million of the money they have to spend on research this year . |
18 | This brings us to rule five : only ever praise somebody ( a ) in order to condemn someone else ( ‘ Danny Baker is genuinely witty and not childish like so many Radio 1 ‘ personalities ' ’ ) or ( b ) if they have just been sacked ( ‘ I found the previous presenters stylish , informed and witty , creating just the right atmosphere . |
19 | As they have just been inexplicitly stated , each of these views is in fact itself better regarded as a set of possible views . |
20 | They agree to let their friends think they have just been ‘ lazing around ’ . |