Example sentences of "had just [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 2 | Dinah had just gone in with the dagger to smear the sleeping servants with blood . |
| 3 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 4 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 5 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 6 | A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower . |
| 7 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 8 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was Dinah , with her arms full of packages ; she had just come out of a cab . |
| 11 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 12 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 13 | Bonard had just emerged on to the terrace . |
| 14 | It was a programme about the ( then ) proposed orbital cities , and even boasted an interview with a very youthful Ewan Famber , who had just passed out from the Tech-Green High College weighed down with honours and acclamations . |
| 15 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 16 | It must have been legal , ’ said the Archdeacon , who had just caught up with the conversation . |
| 17 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 18 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 19 | Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth . |
| 20 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 21 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 22 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 23 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 24 | A Dessie Edgar corner was neatly side-footed home in 79 minutes by Victor Welch who had just come on as a sub . |
| 25 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 26 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 27 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 28 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 29 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 30 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |