Example sentences of "just [been] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GOALKEEPER Aidan Davison , so his grandma tells us , has just been named the Millwall supporters ' player of the year . |
| 2 | And every parent has just been sent a letter — which claims ’ both Labour and the Liberal Demcrats have stated their intention to close down the remaining grammar schools . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you 'd just been made a director of this firm ? ’ |
| 4 | She realised , wearily , almost too tired to care , that she had just been made the butt of a joke . |
| 5 | This is where the swans have been spending the regatta — at Egham just off the M25 in Surrey — it 's just been made the national swan sanctuary and has around 100 birds at any one time . |
| 6 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 7 | I 've also just been lent a political fiction saga by one of Mrs T 's former advisers which is said to be excellent . |
| 8 | The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago . |
| 9 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 10 | Rupert Bear is not only the world 's tallest hot air balloon and a leading children 's favourite since 1920 , he has just been appointed the National Trust 's young ‘ green ’ spokesman , or should one say spokesbear . |
| 11 | Kenan 's just been granted a 6-month visa , 4 months after the Nix 's first tried to bring him out of Bosnia . |
| 12 | Kenan 's just been granted a 6-month visa , 4 months after the Nix 's first tried to bring him out of Bosnia . |
| 13 | I drove into the mouth of a carnivorous wave with the reckless abandon of a man who has just been given a week to live . |
| 14 | Have you just been given a position of more responsibility ? |
| 15 | A young teacher ( Class 3 ) has just been given a special award for the ‘ best classroom ’ in Francistown . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 17 | The living room , originally furnished in rusty browns , has just been given a brighter look with soft peach paper and multi-striped curtains by Designers Guild . |
| 18 | you 're going to work in there , you 've just been given a , your , your standard value which is gross , thousand and thousand of dollars , now how are you going to spend that money that you 've got for |
| 19 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 21 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
| 22 | Just been given a new exercise book , textbook . |
| 23 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be visiting the Victorian mansion that is n't finished yet , and has just been given a grant to ensure that it never will be . |
| 24 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 25 | The council 's plan to replace their Saturday shift with a standby system has infuriated the men whose bosses have just been given a big pay rise . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 27 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 28 | And the unique project has just been given the Royal seal of approval . |
| 29 | Although the first British atomic bomb had only just been tested a month before at Monte Bello Island off the north-west coast of Australia , the British government , under Churchill 's leadership , decided remarkably quickly in December to follow the American lead and to build its own hydrogen bomb as soon as possible . |
| 30 | Cadfael could not choose but feel some sympathy for one whose dubious but daring enterprise had come full circle , and now threatened him with disgrace and punishment ; all the more as Cadfael himself had just been spared a possibly similar exposure . |