Example sentences of "[noun] had just [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On another occasion , Mr Reynolds had just gone to bed when he had the feeling that there was a fire on the site .
2 The Council had just agreed to rehouse women who stayed there , and had promised larger , more permanent premises for the Refuge itself .
3 England had just lost to Spain .
4 One major bank robbery had just come to trial .
5 He and his wife had just gone to bed .
6 Kermit Weeks and Linda Meyers had just returned to Florida from France where Kermit had flown the Week 's Solution ( an aerobatic type which he had designed ) in a competition .
7 He scored a further success with Colonel Nathaniel Montgomery Moore who , on the visit which he , his wife and Miss D'Arcy had just taken to Dumfries , had encountered none other than Major General Gerard Lake , ‘ who told me about your great gallantry at Guelder — Gueld — ‘
8 Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool .
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