Example sentences of "that had just " in BNC.

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1 This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure .
2 On one occasion he was about to go on board a ship that had just anchored when unforeseen business detained him .
3 She was very doubtful whether this arrangement would continue , but it suited her purpose to conceal the row that had just occurred .
4 Before I knew what I desired , the desire itself was gone , the whole glimpse withdrawn , the world turned commonplace again , or only stirred by a longing that had just ceased .
5 He picked out the small nematode that had just the right characteristics , and single-handed , he established a thriving field from scratch .
6 They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn .
7 My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me .
8 This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit .
9 A wooden scooter he 'd made tipped me over the handlebars on its maiden voyage and he picked it up and smashed it to smithereens against a lamp-post , as if it were a cobra that had just delivered a fatal bite .
10 After all , here was a company that had just performed unparalleled feats .
11 He was also carrying £70,000 which he was depositing in a bank for payment for the work that had just been completed .
12 RUSTLERS will get the trots if they eat two stolen sheep that had just been given de-worming chemicals , Northumberland police warned .
13 Johnson 's , I was soon to learn , was typical of other South Seas stores — more like a warehouse than a shop , with new lines that had just arrived by boat piled up against the shelves of the barn-like building .
14 She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true .
15 While the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum , he helped in creating the new displays for the Museum 's collection of classical antiquities that had just come out of wartime storage .
16 Panic , that was the first reaction to whatever it was that had just happened .
17 Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened .
18 Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened .
19 The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done .
20 She gave her friend a significant glance and then clamped her lips together , in a parody of someone who was not going to say whatever it was that had just crossed her mind .
21 After all that had just happened , his apparent lack of emotion was impossible to bear , and a wave of anger washed over her .
22 I jammed one finger in my ear against the fourth circle of hell that had just broken loose .
23 Right now there was more danger in the strange , yielding weakness that had just taken her by surprise .
24 But would it not get covered in soot and spoil the clean clothes that had just been washed ?
25 He looked at Ronni as though she were a particularly disappointing novelty that had just fallen out of his Christmas cracker .
26 And that had just about been that !
27 In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes .
28 At last , pulling herself together , she went to give Joanna and Helen a watered-down version of the scene that had just taken place — watered-down because , for some subconscious reason , she felt that Dawn 's story was not quite believable .
29 As their lips met , she knew in a flash that this kiss of love was even more wonderful than the words that had just thrilled her .
30 Their beauty outstanding , Their grace unmatched , Their tender babies that had just hatched .
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