Example sentences of "it had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her . |
| 2 | At St Bartholomew 's Hospital , 75 beds have closed ; Parkside Health Authority has closed a 20-bed ward it had just re-opened to try to tackle waiting lists ; and proposals to close some beds at the London Hospital are expected to go next week to Tower Hamlets Health Authority , which faces a £1.3m overspend . |
| 3 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 4 | It had just one redeeming feature . |
| 5 | It had just taken him by surprise , her wanting to put flowers in an empty house . |
| 6 | Unfortunately it had just been earmarked for housing . |
| 7 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 8 | The specimen shown has both its original valves preserved , and looks today much as it did when it had just died . |
| 9 | We had never consciously allocated days to each other ; it had just turned out that we had grabbed them and put our stamp on them . |
| 10 | It looked as if it had just been brought home by Susan from Blackpool . |
| 11 | She was glad to get away for a change of scene , as it had just been confirmed that Steve had been killed , and her place was taken by Nancy , a tall , dark Scots girl , who fitted into the Met team very well . |
| 12 | That was what happened in 1984 when Renault 's Formula 1 programme fell into disarray the season after it had just been pipped at the final post by the Brabham-BMW team . |
| 13 | It had just happened . |
| 14 | That little bottle with the plastic spoon attached , it had just taken him back about five years . |
| 15 | Thirty minutes since Dominic had gone inside that room … time enough for a readjustment of ideas , time enough to let resentment flood back to the place it had just left . |
| 16 | It had just one room up and one down , big enough only for two people to live in . |
| 17 | It had just been decided that it was not possible that the coffin in a horizontal position could be manoeuvred around the many angles of doors and walls between there and the front door . |
| 18 | You could spot where it had just been by aeroplanes and helicopters taking off in a hurry . |
| 19 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 20 | But his agent , Mr Tony Gordon , told us the visit was n't off — it had just been postponed . |
| 21 | ’ It had just picked up the muzak . |
| 22 | It had just become a costly , and addictive , habit . |
| 23 | The comedian Spike Milligan held forth about God , Diana gave a priceless diamond and pearl necklace to a friend to look after while she danced ; while the Queen was observed looking through the programme and saying in bemused tones : ‘ It says here they have live music ’ , as though it had just been invented . |
| 24 | It had just gone six thirty . |
| 25 | She noticed that his hair had scissor marks in it , as if it had just been dry cut . |
| 26 | In either case , a court which revokes the order following a breach will be empowered to sentence the offender as if it had just convicted him of the original offence . |
| 27 | ‘ Come early and leave early , ’ coaxed Meredith , and as though it had just occurred to him wondered aloud whether it would be a good idea to include young Harbour . |
| 28 | Jenjin told Rostov that Burun had broken Nogai 's wrist during an argument five days earlier , and that it had just been suggested that if his plan went ahead he might get the other one broken as well . |
| 29 | Because no one could have found that brooch if it had just been a wilderness . |
| 30 | Probably , she concluded , it had just washed itself along on a tide of alcohol and that uneasy mixture of salaciousness and sanctimoniousness which characterises these melancholy occasions . |