Example sentences of "we had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , three nuts spat me out and I can honestly say that the first time I fell , headfirst , facing outwards , above the wall we had just climbed , I really did see stars . |
| 2 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 4 | ‘ The only reason we did n't was a pragmatic one : we had just used ‘ Is Government Dead ? ’ and could n't use it again . ’ |
| 5 | I had tried to excuse our conduct by telling him we had just needed a wash . |
| 6 | All too soon it was over and we left feeling we had just scratched the surface of this fascinating Republic . |
| 7 | We had just finished the Card Trio in Act 3 with Leontyne and the two other gipsy girls in splendid voice , while Karajan 's accompaniment had been an education in itself . |
| 8 | ‘ We had just had dinner , ’ Mr Ellis told detectives . |
| 9 | As the guns were still being fired , a Syrian tank came lunging up the shattered street where we had just been walking and entered the tiny square . |
| 10 | At the time , we had just published Hospitals : A Suitable Case for Treatment and the New End looked to be a typical example of a wasted opportunity . |
| 11 | By 12.30 we had just made the birch wood and had to admit defeat . |
| 12 | Or indeed they could be heading for the two peaks we had just thrashed . |
| 13 | I was sure I remembered the oil drum we had just passed . |
| 14 | We had just as much fun from them , perhaps even more , than modern children have with toys costing a small fortune . |
| 15 | This episode put me off water for years , the platform had seemed almost as high as the Blackpool Tower which we had just visited . |
| 16 | We decided we had just got to stay put in Bromley and in Fulham . |
| 17 | We had just started our first lectures , when apart from helping to prepare the Sulphonamide paper I was given a weekend off to visit City Temple friends who had started a Community House at Highbury New Park . |
| 18 | For what we had just created was not a life but a death , and one that was to take far less than nine months to gestate . |
| 19 | Funnily enough , we had just as much peril when the thaw came , because it was so rapid that it caused flooding . |
| 20 | It seemed reckless to press on , and we had just passed a safe , if inconvenient , landing site . |
| 21 | I hoped the service we had just attended would ensure his continued safe landfalls from ‘ out there ’ . |
| 22 | This time , of course , she was not only armed with the foreknowledge of what would be said but she still had in her mind the conversation we had just had about making mistakes . |
| 23 | It had seemed to us like certain death from the beginning of this hideous drama we had just witnessed . |
| 24 | We could n't believe what we had just seen . ’ |
| 25 | If you 're the captain of England , or any team , you can show your frustration if you 're losing a game to a late goal like the one we had just scored . |
| 26 | I 'll never forget the sense of joy that came over our evening congregation when Edwin announced we had just exceeded our target of £200,000 . |
| 27 | But we had just traversed the Cosmiques Arête to get there . |
| 28 | One night — I think it was the night before Christmas Eve — we had just returned to the cottage after a hard day next door doing some of the ‘ few finishing-off jobs ’ Nigel had earlier specified . |
| 29 | On 4 May 1987 a bank holiday Monday , we had just settled down to lunch before watching A Man for all Seasons . |
| 30 | ‘ We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |