Example sentences of "she had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned up a lane which was even steeper than the road she had just left . |
| 2 | She had just enough money . |
| 3 | She had just started her act in the southern city of Adana when Haci Tepe , a member of the ‘ Grey Wolves ’ , an extremist right-wing paramilitary group , demanded she sing an old nationalist song . |
| 4 | At first she had just worked a couple of hours a week for Graham . |
| 5 | She had just taken him to a psychiatrist who among many searching questions had asked the five-year-old : ‘ If your sister is a girl , what is your brother ? ’ |
| 6 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 7 | She had just come in , having staggered round with the dogs , and she and they were covered with ‘ sweethearts ’ as the locals accurately called burrs — hard to get rid of . |
| 8 | Poor Viola , she had just taken that indecent part for the money . |
| 9 | She had just sat still , next to Bella , and stared at Joe , with fierce , desperate eyes . |
| 10 | Even in the turmoil of his own thoughts , Gazzer found himself registering surprise at what she had just said : ‘ She knows ! ’ he thought . |
| 11 | ‘ I know , ’ I agreed as I shone a table she had just aerosolled . |
| 12 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 13 | His forehead tingled and he put his back against the door , trying to locate himself , trying to absorb what she had just said . |
| 14 | She had just done a course in assertiveness and when she was unkind ( which she was often ) she would say , ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry ’ , and then ‘ No , actually I 'm not sorry ! ’ |
| 15 | Pondering what she had just heard , Wilson went home , wondering if Mr Browning felt the same distrust of Mrs Eckley as she did . |
| 16 | As she faced out to sea then turned back to face the land through which she had just passed , her eyes were unseeing ; only the past was visible . |
| 17 | Finally , a protest from a woman who says she had just finished Helen Bullock 's ‘ oh-so-true ’ article when her husband came in and said : ’ ‘ There seems to be a bit of toast on the floor in the other room ’ . |
| 18 | We knew she had just been promoted at work , so it could n't be that . |
| 19 | What she had just been through was insane and illogical , but also unambiguous and actual . |
| 20 | But her own internal stresses — her anxiety over Between the Acts which she had just finished , and the fear that she had lost the power to write — closed in on her as that unmitigable depression , her companion of old , took final hold . |
| 21 | Alone , Franca washed her face in cold water in the kitchen , washing off the powder she had just put on . |
| 22 | She had just arrived and was looking for a cheap hotel . |
| 23 | She arrived one day in the clinic in the peak of health and triumphantly announced that she had just got married and was setting out to live in Palm Springs with her husband . |
| 24 | That drastic formula meant , for instance , that the ballet turned out to be full of controlled balances on one leg , which until then she had just not been able to sustain . |
| 25 | An old lady , like that ancient crone who lived in the cottage she had just passed , who had a hairy mole on her chin and squinted hideously . |
| 26 | For a moment he thought she was going to hit him , and then her face turned crimson , her mouth started to bang to and fro like a door in a gale force wind and a sound came down her nose that suggested she had just swallowed a quart of White ’ s Cream Soda . |
| 27 | He liked Hana 's mother well enough but she had just refused to learn any English at all , and every visit was a strain . |
| 28 | She had just stuck the first stamp on the envelope when a friendly voice behind her said : ‘ Can you manage all right , missy , or do you want a lift up ? ’ |
| 29 | She had just come from London and she told us all about the great spirit of British resistance to the Nazi air attacks . |
| 30 | A few months after the service started there was a tragedy when the young daughter of Mr. Whitehead , Headmaster of The Salisbury School ( now Chafyn Grove ) was killed as she ran behind the reversing bus from which she had just alighted . |