Example sentences of "had just [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , he had just appointed a new Cabinet and he insisted that the would not leave until it had been formally approved by the Majles , or parliament , as the constitution demanded . |
| 2 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 3 | They had just done a big concert at the Albert Hall with an orchestra for an album called Snowgoose . |
| 4 | There was an inspirational maths teacher , Mr. Tahta , and the school had just built a new maths room , which the maths set had as their classroom . |
| 5 | She had just met a small girl who possessed , or so it seemed to her , quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance . |
| 6 | So Sarazen took on a young caddie , who , it transpired , seemed to do all the things that even the caddies of today would not dream of doing , like pulling the clubs without consultation with Sarazen , and then , if the club did not work , telling Sarazen he had just hit a bad shot — it was not his club selection at fault . |
| 7 | He had a serious expression on his face and there were no signs that he had just escaped a raging inferno . |
| 8 | But it is easy to see that , for example , a young mother who had recently been left by her husband , and gone back to a ( very good ) job , would pile up several different low scores , all linked to the fact that she had just become a single parent . |
| 9 | Only this weekend , I had a telephone call from a distressed daughter who pointed out that her mother , who was widowed 18 months ago , had just received a threatening letter saying that , if she did not pay £11 for the 16 days between 1 April and 17 April 1989 , during which her husband had been alive , poinding action would be taken against her . |
| 10 | Considering that he had just made a pointless journey of several thousand miles , the young man seemed remarkably equable and spent almost the entire journey sitting cross-legged , spooning purple yoghurt into his mouth from an enormous jar and reading a novel by Thomas Mann . |
| 11 | Dorothy explained that they had n't given her any money ; she was here as a reporter for a journal whose name they knew ; her membership of the feminist abortion campaign to which PopCon had just made a large grant was irrelevant to the present discussion ; she was just doing her job . |
| 12 | The British people had just elected a Conservative Government , headed by Britain 's first ever woman Prime Minister , who had already earned the reputation of being ‘ the best man for the job ’ in the Conservative Party . |
| 13 | She felt as guilty about running away as if she had just robbed a lame beggar of his last groat . |
| 14 | They all knew that The Hooded Owl had just survived a great crisis . |
| 15 | When one of Ken 's friends told her he had just bought a new television set — a 17-inch console — she commented : ‘ Seventeen inches ? |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The hum of conversation was interrupted by Richard Ryder , who called for silence for the Prime Minister , and John Major had just started a short speech of thanks to their host , not only for his hospitality , but also for his creativity , when there was a thunderous noise of shouting and breaking glass outside . |
| 18 | At a hospital in Manchester , the midwives had just started a Teenage Parent Club . |
| 19 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 20 | Naturally one had wished to invite Mr Adolphus Moon who had just purchased a delightful house with extensive grounds near the village of Far Flatley , where Amabel herself would dearly love to build . |
| 21 | ‘ The nurse said I was very good company , which I thought was praise indeed for a guy who had just had a coronary thrombosis . |
| 22 | The ticket collector , who had just had a new perm , thought the girl 's geometrically cut and excessively short hair awful . |
| 23 | Williams explained in the court that the MRF had just had a new intake of NCOs . |
| 24 | He felt weak and shaking , as though he had just had a huge shock . |
| 25 | To soothe her grief , Mrs Belgrove , who had just had a little boy , designed an all-white garden beyond the lawn . |
| 26 | Maybe they felt his concentration had just waned a little bit late on but he 's er he 's had a good game he should be very pleased with his contribution . |
| 27 | In August 1930 , Karriers had just introduced a three-wheeled goods chassis named the Colt . |
| 28 | A wooden scooter he 'd made tipped me over the handlebars on its maiden voyage and he picked it up and smashed it to smithereens against a lamp-post , as if it were a cobra that had just delivered a fatal bite . |
| 29 | When Fuzzy Zoeller , thinking Norman had just holed a vast putt across Winged Foot 's final green for an American Open championship-winning birdie in 1984 , he waved a white towel in surrender . |
| 30 | At the time of his stroke , he had just finished a major biography , which had received critical acclaim , and he was researching for his next book . |