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Example sentences for "just been"

  • I should like to tell you what he's just been saying to me, but I don't believe I can.

  • I knew Mrs. Vostrand in Italy a good many years ago, and I've just been calling on her and her daughter, who was a little girl then.

  • That's what cousin Jim said to-day; he's just been at our house; and it was so extremely telepathic that I thought I must run round and prevent your having the man on your conscience if you felt you had had too much of him.

  • Poor old Bob's in the hospital--just been operated on for appendicitis!

  • I'll swear no crowd like that have been where I've just been.

  • Lady: "I've just been making my side ache over your latest book.

  • GRACE The son and heir had just been confirmed.

  • Look at the way you've just been talking to me!

  • I thought she probably wouldn't have been there unless she had just been married to him, so I had the register looked up, and there she was.

  • I've just been under a severe mental strain.

  • I don't agree with some of the things you've just been telling me; I should hate to, anyway.

  • I've just been a blind, selfish woman who believed in everybody, and most of all in herself and her selfish aims.

  • All the years I've been with them I've just been lost in a sort of dream world of ambition.

  • Because I've just been gettin' married," says I, in my Bosco voice.

  • He'd just been trying to keep even with the coupons and dividends that the old man had left him, burnin' it as it came in, and he'd run out of matches.

  • They've just been to the postoffice and back again.

  • I've just been up on the bridge with Bonteck.

  • As I said a while back, I've just been hanging on and hoping against hope.

  • I've just been speaking a bit o' my mind.

  • It's not a good time to ask Father anything when he's just been waked up.

  • I guess they'd just been married," opening the case.

  • Undine," which she and her husband have just been reading--the new translation.

  • Do you want to know what mischief I've just been at?

  • I've just been wondering if I was going to see you.

  • How much of what you've just been saying to him is right, and how much is just bluff to cover a place where you miscued?

  • But there was something between it and the things this fellow has just been telling me.

  • I've just been paying a little visit," replied Ashton-Kirk.

  • I've just been down to Timothy Cotton's to see if I could get Alice Louise to help me for a few days," she said.

  • I've just been down to Lorenzo's," she announced.

  • I've just been sick about it," Julia said.

  • I've just been thinking of girls who like this sort of thing--I don't see how they can!

  • I've just been talking to Caroline," she went on.

  • It's Joe Kirk's furniture; he's just been married, you know.

  • So now he comes to the house with a look as if he'd just been baptized.

  • After what I'd just been through, saying good-by to them, it worked on me like a bad omen.

  • I've just been impressed by a thing or two.

  • Jason's just been telling me that the new folks up at Brae Wood have been sending all round the place for eggs and butter and cream and fowls, and Jason says that he can get so much better prices from them than from Bryndermere.

  • He's just been brought in by our boys; they are back with the moose-meat.

  • As the Boy got up and reached for his stick, Austin stood there saying, to nobody in particular, that he'd just been over to No.

  • I just been to his cell and he ain't there.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "just been" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    come alongside; just about; just above; just and; just beginning; just below; just boil; just didn; just from; just have; just know; just large; just men made perfect; just naturally; just north; just peace; just revenge; just simply; just such; just tell; just this; just wanted; just when; justifying righteousness; little open; secret vice