Example sentences of "just been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West had just been sending gold straight to Stalin 's coffers . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I have just been elected chairman again for this year I am very much involved with the society so it just makes sense really . ’ |
| 3 | Having just been named Donegal person of the year , it is clear that McEniff is climbing the ladder in the Donegal's-most-famous-son stakes . |
| 4 | Shaun Hill , of Gidleigh Park country house hotel in Devon , has just been named Egon Ronay Chef of the Year , while Gary Rhodes of The Greenhouse in London won The Times ' Restaurant of the Year 1991 award . |
| 5 | I 've just been taping loads , four . |
| 6 | It was his grandson who , in 1831 , enlisted the help of a Lambton , who had just been made Earl of Durham , to prove his claim to the Earldom of Perth . |
| 7 | The proposal , drawn up by an advisory group of industrialists and academics known as the DTI 's aviation committee , was originally put to the department last November , but has only just been made public . |
| 8 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 9 | In a radio broadcast on 1 October 1936 , the day he was officially invested as Head of State , Franco hinted at how he envisaged the organization of the as yet non-existent state of whose equally non-existent government he had just been made leader . |
| 10 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
| 11 | ‘ They say things like ‘ I 've just been to see Mum ’ so I must be still in it sort of , ’ she laughs . |
| 12 | We 've just been to see Jean there at the chippy . |
| 13 | Alan Smith had just been appointed editor and was about to change the whole face of the paper , ditching those who revered Cilla as the greatest swinger on the block . |
| 14 | He has just been appointed head of the private office of Jean Glavany , France 's Secretary of State for Technical Education . |
| 15 | These are the people to whom , for example , you write if you 've just been appointed liquidator of a company and want to get its VAT payments sorted out . |
| 16 | Ken , who although he had just been appointed Bishop , was still a Royal Chaplain , remained beside the bed of the dying King for three days and nights , ‘ watching at proper intervals to suggest pious and proper thoughts and ejaculations on so serious an occasion ’ . |
| 17 | But as one door closes , another opens — and the former Larne defender has just been appointed manager of Smithwick 's Amateur League Premier side Drumaness Mills . |
| 18 | In fact , Coetzee has just been granted immunity to return to South Africa for three weeks : he will give evidence in support of the Mxenge family 's case against the Minister of Law and Order , which begins on April 15 . |
| 19 | Well another question — it 's been put several times on this programme — it 's something like this — Councillors have just been considering cuts in budgets that will affect the voters . |
| 20 | He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany . |
| 21 | We 'd just been given leave after the fiasco of Operation Eagle Claw , the so-called attempt to rescue the American hostages from our embassy in Teheran back in 1980 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For the owner has just been fined £32,000 by a court for breaking health regulations . |
| 24 | The England international 's wonder strike against Pescara earlier this month has just been voted goal of the season so far by top TV station RAI and earned him £9,000 , which he has donated to a charity helping Brazilian schoolchildren . |
| 25 | He had sprung to his feet and thrown out his arms and cried , for he had just been doing Archimedes ' Principle at school , " Eureka ! " |
| 26 | I have just been to get tickets for the Arsenal game . |
| 27 | The McCapra String Quartet have just been reappointed Aldeburgh Quartet in Residence for the second year running . |