Example sentences of "a [noun sg] who 's just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arms and fists raised like a footballer who 's just scored a goal , Austin Currie took his kudos , from the audience of 500 in the packed conference hall of the Slieve Donard Hotel . |
| 2 | ‘ But not to a midget who 's just eaten my lunch and whom I 've subsequently insulted , who then turns out to be one of the world 's top dress designers . |
| 3 | He did n't know the correct etiquette for replying to a lady who 's just told you her recently-murdered husband was impotent . |
| 4 | We make do with the dole and Ellie 's going in with a friend who 's just started a café which 'll help with the food . |
| 5 | Like a woman who 's just been well and truly kissed . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh God , every day it seems I 'm speaking to a mate who 's just been robbed , ’ said Woody , sometime Cross Key 's barman , in his thick Lancashire accent . |
| 7 | You look like a kid who 's just discovered Father Christmas does n't exist . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ A neurotic , ’ he said , ‘ is a man who 's just worked out what 's going on . ’ |
| 9 | You do n't look like a man who 's just escaped from a fire . ’ |
| 10 | He 's like a dictator who 's just come to power and does all the awful violent things at once , like changing the laws and murdering people and confiscating everything — then later on it 'll all be taken for granted and he can play at being kind and good . ’ |
| 11 | A doctor who 's just returned from helping victims of the civil war in Somalia has been describing how the surgeon next to him was shot in the operating theatre as they were trying to save a patient 's life . |
| 12 | I feel like a prisoner who 's just got parole . |
| 13 | Like a three-year-old who 's just learned to write his own name , Marky Mark repeats his dozens of times . |
| 14 | I look at McDunn , the one friendly-ish face in here and the only one I can look at without feeling like a five-year-old who 's just wet his pants . |
| 15 | But it was n't OK and when I reached for my bishop , he 'd wave his arms over the board like a referee who 's just counted somebody out — and change his move . |