Example sentences of "[noun pl] had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 2 | But suppose that nearly all the entries had just happened to be nasty . |
| 3 | She had n't meant to ask , the words had just slipped out . |
| 4 | To ensure that descriptions corresponded to memories for events from the drive that subjects had just completed , as recorded on the video tape , descriptions were eliminated from the analysis if they included no correct details about the actual events at the junction . |
| 5 | Niklaus had just swarmed up Resurrection , taking a bit of a flyer in the process , being into the British way of things , and was obviously having a great day out . |
| 6 | Eight days before the choice Mains ' face seemed set in a state of shock , for the All Blacks had just escaped 24–21 from defeat by Ireland in the First Test . |
| 7 | The blacks had just seen a film , ‘ Mississippi Burning ’ , in which Klansmen beat a black child to death . |
| 8 | They were afraid of reprisal because the Arabs had just ambushed a relief convoy at Kubri . |
| 9 | Golden lads and lasses had just breakfasted on golden toast , a little blackened at the edge in some cases , spread with golden shred or golden syrup . |
| 10 | It was no accident that when I was writing this , the Conservatives had just been returned to power in the 1983 election , and one of their first moves was to try to disguise popular discontent with the police by the restoration of the rope . |
| 11 | Isabel felt as though one of the mangonels had just rolled over her . |
| 12 | The Jewish Christians had just as distorted an idea of God and by consequence had run into problems in their relationships with these brand-new non-Jewish converts . |
| 13 | Many gins later , his guests had just come to the end of the petits fours when Wullie Robertson turned up , forcing his way into La Noblesse , looking like the wrath of God , or the son of some Pictish chieftain , and demanding , ‘ Hyacinth ! |
| 14 | He 'd noticed that the geese had just arrived in the back fields . |
| 15 | I remember , it was when flared trousers had just come in — remember when you had straight trousers and you wanted to make them into flares you sewed in a triangle of material ? |
| 16 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 17 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 18 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 19 | In retaliation , Israel directed heavy artillery bombardments at villages north of the " security zone " , including areas from which Israeli tanks and troops had just withdrawn . |
| 20 | As the 22 men in the three boats had just taken their respective stations , a young girl came running down from the village to the shore in breathless haste . |
| 21 | The street lights had just come on , a little premature , and where they stood close to any of the orphan-like trees their electric brightness was captured in the mesh of dusty leaves , giving the street an elegance it had otherwise long since lost . |
| 22 | The latest gramophone discs had just arrived in Colombo , and one could join Harry Champion in the chorus of his You Ought to See the Missus in a Harem Skirt . |
| 23 | With Black Fury Warner Bros had just gone a little too far by even referring to strikes and labour problems at a time of mounting industrial tension but the popular and critical reception to the movie showed that the company were not wrong to believe that they had the technical ability and the actors to make films whose reality would be appreciated . |
| 24 | Charles wondered what new disaster had hit the production , or which of the producer 's dubious deals had just blown up in his face . |
| 25 | Joseph and the other boy had drawn playing cards for her , and Joseph 's ten of hearts had just beaten David Mali 's nine of diamonds . |
| 26 | His twin seventeen-year-old grand-daughters had just left school and when he had read the rough draft of Sara 's prospectus he had immediately suggested that she enrolled Celia and Rosalind . |
| 27 | The Allied guns had just started up as I entered the orchard . |
| 28 | Wendell Harvey regarded his daughter thoughtfully as she rearranged the big vase of flowers one of the servants had just carried into the room . |
| 29 | The 2ft 6in trees had just been planted along Thirsk Road when raiders struck . |
| 30 | The price of oil was tumbling again , one of his most reliable brokers on Wall Street had just been arrested for insider dealing , the acquisition of a highly prestigious London hotel had been held up by a query as to who actually owned it and , back home , one of his sisters had just committed suicide , causing a tremor of scandal throughout the country . |