Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] he had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 2 | I thought he had just punched me but he must have produced a knife , ’ Mr Norrie mumbled through his swollen mouth . |
| 3 | I think he had just got bored and was looking for something to do , so he sought to amuse . ’ |
| 4 | The last time we met he had just bought a new boat , having taken up sailing in his spare time ( but he has n't much of that ) . |
| 5 | He did so ‘ to incapacitate him — to make him realise he had just injured one of my colleagues . ’ |
| 6 | It seemed he had just lost the ferrule of his stick . |
| 7 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 8 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 9 | He did n't hate her , and he certainly did n't want to hurt her , but he knew he had just done the best thing he could ever do for Sandra Bamfield . |
| 10 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 11 | He said he had just driven from Ladgate Lane when the man suddenly appeared in front of him . |
| 12 | He was mightily pissed off with me ; perhaps he wished he had just let them shoot me on the ground . |