Example sentences of "[conj] had just " in BNC.
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1 | Had all four defendants committed the brutal crimes , or had just two of the brother perpetrated these heinous events , later to be joined by William who had done his best to abet them after the event ? |
2 | Perhaps he was still sleepy , or had just indulged in a stultifying beetle meal . |
3 | Only last week , I spoke to a garage owner who told me that almost every other customer was either losing a job or had just lost one in the past month or so . |
4 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
5 | On one occasion he was about to go on board a ship that had just anchored when unforeseen business detained him . |
6 | She was very doubtful whether this arrangement would continue , but it suited her purpose to conceal the row that had just occurred . |
7 | Before I knew what I desired , the desire itself was gone , the whole glimpse withdrawn , the world turned commonplace again , or only stirred by a longing that had just ceased . |
8 | He picked out the small nematode that had just the right characteristics , and single-handed , he established a thriving field from scratch . |
9 | They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn . |
10 | My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me . |
11 | This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit . |
12 | A wooden scooter he 'd made tipped me over the handlebars on its maiden voyage and he picked it up and smashed it to smithereens against a lamp-post , as if it were a cobra that had just delivered a fatal bite . |
13 | After all , here was a company that had just performed unparalleled feats . |
14 | He was also carrying £70,000 which he was depositing in a bank for payment for the work that had just been completed . |
15 | RUSTLERS will get the trots if they eat two stolen sheep that had just been given de-worming chemicals , Northumberland police warned . |
16 | Johnson 's , I was soon to learn , was typical of other South Seas stores — more like a warehouse than a shop , with new lines that had just arrived by boat piled up against the shelves of the barn-like building . |
17 | She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true . |
18 | While the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum , he helped in creating the new displays for the Museum 's collection of classical antiquities that had just come out of wartime storage . |
19 | Panic , that was the first reaction to whatever it was that had just happened . |
20 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
21 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
22 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
23 | She gave her friend a significant glance and then clamped her lips together , in a parody of someone who was not going to say whatever it was that had just crossed her mind . |
24 | After all that had just happened , his apparent lack of emotion was impossible to bear , and a wave of anger washed over her . |
25 | I jammed one finger in my ear against the fourth circle of hell that had just broken loose . |
26 | Right now there was more danger in the strange , yielding weakness that had just taken her by surprise . |
27 | But would it not get covered in soot and spoil the clean clothes that had just been washed ? |
28 | He looked at Ronni as though she were a particularly disappointing novelty that had just fallen out of his Christmas cracker . |
29 | And that had just about been that ! |
30 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |