Example sentences of "[pron] had just said " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , no , not , not sort of getting at , anyway I had just said that to father you see |
| 2 | She had a little pug-like dog who wore an expression of perpetual outrage , its eyes bulging as though someone had just said something unforgivable to it . |
| 3 | Even in the turmoil of his own thoughts , Gazzer found himself registering surprise at what she had just said : ‘ She knows ! ’ he thought . |
| 4 | His forehead tingled and he put his back against the door , trying to locate himself , trying to absorb what she had just said . |
| 5 | Her father looked at her and nodded , which was a sure sign that he disagreed with what she had just said . |
| 6 | I could tell by her voice that she had just said something which she believed , and I was surprised , because I had somehow thought her too clever really to believe anything . |
| 7 | Funnily enough , though , and despite everything she had just said , she did n't want to eat dinner on her own . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 10 | As he had just said , he did genuinely want to help . |
| 11 | ‘ That probably sounds pompous , ’ adds Laing apologetically , reflecting on what he had just said . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | But something nagged at her about what he had just said . |
| 14 | Then the comrade had repeated , word for word , what he had just said . |
| 15 | The superintendent asked if he really meant what he had just said . |
| 16 | He had just said , ‘ I have come to the point where I do not think of colour . |
| 17 | His words rang in the clear air and she could feel her head swimming from the enormity of what he had just said . |
| 18 | What he had just said , if that was what he had said , was as frightening as anything else that had happened since my dad died . |
| 19 | Of course , the irony of what he had just said escaped him , but it caused Shiona to smile a bitter inner smile . |
| 20 | He was acting — he had just said so . |
| 21 | What he had just said hit her like a douche of cold water , and instantly Leith , while wanting to hammer the living daylights out of him , — although still forgetful of her tenuous job position — was otherwise working on full brain power . |
| 22 | Her heart was acting so erratically that she could hardly analyse what he had just said . |
| 23 | And yet he had just said — she shook her head and stood up . |