Example sentences of "[pers pn] had just [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 2 | Although surgery was a mutilation , and I had just lost a kidney , that seemed nothing compared with the loss of a beautiful head of hair . |
| 3 | But I wish I had just stayed a worker , |
| 4 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 5 | Ben and I had just given a recital in Vienna . |
| 6 | ( I must tell here the story of a charming American lady who approached me when I had just given a talk on regression therapy . |
| 7 | Feeling as if I had just won a gold medal , I ran home , carefully examined my treasure to find that the ‘ bone ’ handle was only painted tin . |
| 8 | He looked down at me as if he were a giant and I had just climbed a beanstalk . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! ’ |
| 11 | Tina looked guilty , as if she had just betrayed a secret . |
| 12 | She had just spent a weekend at home in Belfast dutifully admiring the latest Hennessy grandchild and enduring countless little digs about good Catholic girls and settling down to raise a family instead of racketing about the world enjoying herself — as if it was such a sin to enjoy life , for God 's sake , she thought angrily , and anyway six years as Sister in the accident and emergency department of the Audley Memorial in Suffolk hardly constituted racketing ! |
| 13 | Perhaps she was attracted to Jacqui 's work because she had just won a prize for designing a new uniform . |
| 14 | She had just taken a mouthful of the rather sour wormwood-flavoured wine when Anthony came breezily into the room . |
| 15 | At first she had just worked a couple of hours a week for Graham . |
| 16 | But , anyway , if you had just killed a man and taken his pocket-book , would you quietly go through it there ? |
| 17 | Particularly if you had just had a row with your wife , and rather suspected that you were in the wrong . |
| 18 | We had just cleared a jungle overhang , and slipped beneath it like a snail under a mushroom , when we awakened an enormous colony of giant fruit bats — the " flying foxes " with a wingspan of over three feet . |
| 19 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 20 | I had tried to excuse our conduct by telling him we had just needed a wash . |
| 21 | They had just negotiated a lock and it had been her turn to go ashore . |
| 22 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 23 | Phil Barber , Barnard Castle National Farmers ' Union branch secretary , condemned the Intervention Board 's decision , saying the operators were particularly upset because they had just spent a lot of money to improve the facilities to offer a better service to customers . |
| 24 | Now , for example , they had just finished a sponge bath in bed , there was a pre-dinner blood glucose test to do , as well as the pre-dinner insulin injection — right arm , site four , this evening — and the foot-care routine still to fit in . |
| 25 | I shone my torch at him and he made a face like he had just chewed a lemon : ‘ I 'm going to have to pull from higher up — I guess it 's the knot . ’ |
| 26 | In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One ! |
| 27 | He had just done a smear test on her . |
| 28 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 29 | Miller next wrote on 15 February 1757 reporting that he had just received a letter from Bartram , written at the beginning of November , with the ‘ disagreeable account that neither of my letters , wrote last summer ’ had arrived and thus some of his important queries had not been considered . |
| 30 | He had just built a house at Beverly for Sir Charles Hotham the year before , and Ebberston was a convenient following job . |