Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [pron] had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His forehead tingled and he put his back against the door , trying to locate himself , trying to absorb what she had just said . |
| 2 | For some reason she found what she had just said enormously funny , and exploded into the phone with a fruity laugh before putting down her receiver . |
| 3 | Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation . |
| 4 | Sara said as Slater , turning briefly to greet somebody he had just passed , came over to them . |
| 5 | I went downstairs and they told me they had just got married . |
| 6 | When I complained to one of the newspaper 's senior editors , he told me he had just rejected an article highly critical of me and ray position . |
| 7 | Kate told him what had just happened in Jason 's office . |
| 8 | When one of Ken 's friends told her he had just bought a new television set — a 17-inch console — she commented : ‘ Seventeen inches ? |
| 9 | The Josephs were squabbling about whether Merlyn should have done what she had just done , whether Barbara Coleman had not truly deserved it . |
| 10 | We could n't believe what we had just seen . ’ |
| 11 | He could not believe what he had just lived through . |
| 12 | Pondering what she had just heard , Wilson went home , wondering if Mr Browning felt the same distrust of Mrs Eckley as she did . |
| 13 | Her heart was acting so erratically that she could hardly analyse what he had just said . |
| 14 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 15 | The superintendent asked if he really meant what he had just said . |
| 16 | She switched on a desk lamp , and quickly scanned what she had just written , murmuring to herself . |
| 17 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 18 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 19 | It was like telling someone they had just lost at Russian roulette . |
| 20 | I had tried to excuse our conduct by telling him we had just needed a wash . |
| 21 | ‘ Nice to meet you , Chief Inspector , ’ he said with automatic politeness , then considered what he had just said , decided it was beyond explanation and led them upstairs to his office . |