Example sentences of "and had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul , 27 , from Hanworth , Middlesex , spent a blank five hours at the water and had just changed swims when the pike took a float fished trout on 12 lb line with size 8 barbless trebles . |
| 2 | She was Manisha , a Muslim girl of twenty from Sylhet , and had just had her second child . |
| 3 | Wallace , in fact , now closed down the Nissan , and had just taken third position when the rain fell . |
| 4 | I was doing my third week as a young crime reporter and had just about finished my second and last story of the day when the phone rang . |
| 5 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 6 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 7 | Ten years ago Eddie Murphy was aged 19 and had just left a job in a shoe store to start on Saturday Night Live , playing a variety of characters including Buck Wheat , Mr. Rogers and Velvet Jones . |
| 8 | The trash cans were big and had just been emptied , and in an instant the boys were off chasing the girls and yelling at the tops of their voices . |
| 9 | At a meeting last summer , he mentioned that he was suffering from a sudden bout of back pain and had just visited an acupuncturist . |
| 10 | As they drove off , the LRDG boys said that they had heard and seen everything and had just had to stay to the end . |
| 11 | He asked Ashton , who was an old friend and had just created Illuminations for the company , to suggest who would be most suitable . |
| 12 | We had driven back to the village and had just turned off the road on to the In Salah track . |
| 13 | I picked up reasonable speed and had just about regained my composure when a hand appeared on my left shoulder from behind ! |
| 14 | It had penetrated through the layered chalks on which Troodos sits and had just begun to bring up rock cores from the ophiolite 's fringe . |
| 15 | He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc . |
| 16 | Ivy looked well and had just had a holiday in a private hotel [ Broome Park , once the property of Lord Kitchener ] in Kent . |
| 17 | Dad and Pop had built a garage and had just finished laying a concrete drive . |
| 18 | He and Willie were now in the middle of Exodus and had just begun Grimm 's Fairy Tales . |
| 19 | He quit the booth and had just turned the corner when the plain-clothes policeman emerged from an alley and glanced at the bank of kiosks . |
| 20 | Police were given a 15-minute warning by telephone and had just begun to clear the area . |
| 21 | Ojomoh , by now the South West England Under-21 decathlon champion , developed into a formidable rugby forward and had just joined Bath in 1989 when a letter from the Home Office threatened to wreck his life . |
| 22 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 23 | Chris was nearly 5 years old and had just entered his infant reception class . |
| 24 | They were driving up the Harrow Road and had just passed the complex of St Mary 's Hospital when the campanile of St Matthew 's came suddenly into view on their left . |
| 25 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 26 | I strained to hear , and had just decided that it would be difficult to hear an idling motor over the lap and rush of the sea in the channel , when I saw the light . |
| 27 | The civilization founded on these existed in mature form in the United States of America in 1880 , and had just been extended , at last , to the whole of Europe itself outside the extreme south-eastern corner . |
| 28 | Swallow explained ‘ They had a low-key attitude to the region and had just wanted to get a foot in the door . |
| 29 | They crossed the road to face the oncoming traffic and had just passed a 40 mph speed limit sign when he looked over his shoulder and saw a car heading towards them on the wrong side of the road . |
| 30 | " Yesterday ! " cried Matthew and raised his knife at arm 's length , as if he were St George and had just slaughtered the dragon . |