Example sentences of "[noun] had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 2 | Nearby , a cart horse had just been released from its harness and was busy munching at its fodder ; the up-ended cart stood to one side . |
| 3 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 4 | Creed had just produced a pile of leather stuff and dumped it on the coffee table . |
| 5 | Usually it was late afternoon before I tossed myself into the near-coma from which Gwenellen had just woken me . |
| 6 | Blessed for a military man with unusual fluency with the pen , Lugard brought to this task a literary energy and a crusading passion which seem to have mesmerized those who heard him into believing that a discovery of the first importance in the field of imperial administration had just been made . |
| 7 | In a couple of months , they will be moving to larger premises , which Walker had just found when I visited him . |
| 8 | The first part of the remark was tautologous ( show me a peaceful terrorist ) ; and the second was untrue : Gerry Adams had just lost his West Belfast constituency . |
| 9 | THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't blame you : ’ Bella had just said that . |
| 11 | No one could have told from Mr. Turner 's face that his ice-cold nerve had just saved twenty thousand lives . |
| 12 | Bernice had just enough strength to raise her head and see past him . |
| 13 | ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of . |
| 14 | We was in this railway station and Marie had just been to the dentist . |
| 15 | In 1963 Vine had just graduated in geophysics from Cambridge . |
| 16 | He parted some ferns so we could look back across the Paddock to the changing-rooms where the next toy soldier had just launched himself towards the Orchard . |
| 17 | Geddes had just read Our Towns , and clearly its analysis fitted in with his observations of the evacuees , for he praised it warmly . |
| 18 | On both occasions the car had just been serviced and was running perfectly . |
| 19 | Nevil had just found me . |
| 20 | If her happier frame of mind had just hit the floor with a crash , she was the only person who was going to know it . |
| 21 | His present place was shaky — a violent gale had just blown in the window panes and the frame was flapping loose . |
| 22 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 23 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 24 | Eleanor had just been photographed for one of the supplements and it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news . |
| 25 | Lucy had just made tea and was boiling the kettle again for another cup ; by now supplies of milk and sugar were exhausted and tea had to be drunk without either . |
| 26 | Neill had just visited Johannesburg as part of a lecture tour in South Africa . |
| 27 | But suppose that nearly all the entries had just happened to be nasty . |
| 28 | After the service I saw a small fishing boat had just returned and was beginning to unload . |
| 29 | Williams explained in the court that the MRF had just had a new intake of NCOs . |
| 30 | She had n't meant to ask , the words had just slipped out . |