Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] just [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A local builder , probably the same man who had just built the beautiful house of Newton Ferrers , created this simple masterpiece in the local sea-grey basaltic stone , mixed with silvery granite from the moor up over the hill to the north . |
2 | In 1847 Richard Sheepshanks wrote of John Couch Adams , a Cambridge mathematician who had just predicted the new planet Neptune : ‘ I think there is a hope that Mr Adams will continue his astronomical career . |
3 | For one brief moment , it seemed as if there might be a conventional route to fame , through the young director Roman Polanski who had just entered the fast new Hollywood crowd of which Nicholson was a member , as was his friend Robert Evans , who had been recently appointed vice president of Paramount and in charge of all new production projects . |
4 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
5 | The first function to take place in the new headquarters of cricket was a reception for the bishop of London , who had just consecrated the adjacent St John 's Wood church . |