Example sentences of "[noun] he had just " in BNC.
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1 | Quiss could feel himself starting to s " " eat already , despite having left most of his furs lying at the top of the steps he had just descended . |
2 | A TEENAGER and three of his pals died when he crashed the car he had just been given as a present . |
3 | ANDY Chipling sat back and admired the computer programme he had just completed , bent down to switch on his printer at the powerpoint and stared in horror as a week 's toil disappeared off the screen . |
4 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
5 | The shops he had just examined stretched all the way back to the churchyard wall and their rear windows , set grimly amongst the headstones and mausoleums , had to be checked too . |
6 | As Sheila watched him go , she knew that in spite of the hurtful words he had just spoken she would always have a soft spot for the man . |
7 | It was Mr Spyros P. Skouras who let it be known that if Kazan did not testify helpfully , the pictures he had just made might never appear and he would not be directing any more . |
8 | On Saturday he had just three visitors . |
9 | He was measuring the fear he had just felt . |
10 | The Prophet sprinted from the alley exit scant seconds before the first of the police cars roared out of the fog and screeched to a halt at the dark gap he had just left . |
11 | Ben , however , did not remark on the scene he had just witnessed , but said , ‘ There 's a friend of yours in the yard who would like to have a word with you . |
12 | He told Ram to kill her as well and hurried away to take refuge in the banqueting hall and try to erase from his mind the scene he had just witnessed . |
13 | Watching him stride away , hurt and humiliated by the shocking scene he had just witnessed , she wondered whether she should tell him her secret . |
14 | Mesmerised by the scene he had witnessed , and agonised by the scene he had just had with Mrs Figgis-Hewett , when he saw her costume and vainly attempted to dissuade her , Auguste recalled his prime duty and reluctantly despatched Alfred to the dining room to prepare for the serving of wines at the Prince 's table . |
15 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
16 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
17 | He would then hear the footsteps coming from the corridor he had just left ! |
18 | Grant 's hand darted for his torch , but even as his fingers touched it , the floor shook under him and he heard a tremendous rumbling crash in the corridor he had just left . |
19 | Fanshawe clearly thought that Quigley was the product of the chemical reaction he had just engendered . |
20 | He swung into the hospital driveway , and Belinda could n't find a comforting utterance in response to the deep fears he had just tried to voice . |
21 | Sliding into the warmth he had just left , inhaling the scent of him on the pillows , surrounded by his clothes , books and possessions , she could feel her resolve to keep him at arm 's length ebbing relentlessly away . |
22 | The most striking example of an ( unsuccessful ) attempt at bribery was described by an officer who was offered a free choice of goods from a manufacturer 's showroom if he would pour away a formal sample he had just taken ( see s. iii , ch. 6 ) . |
23 | He held a newly-made fish cake in his two hands like a cricket ball he had just caught . |
24 | Last month he reversed the economic reforms he had just introduced and condemned the IMF as ‘ dictatorial ’ , its policies ‘ suicidal ’ . |
25 | This dismemberment of the kingdom he had just won is indicative of the underlying weakness of Balliol 's position . |
26 | The sink he had just cleaned was stained badly . |
27 | One of the best stories I recall was related by Norman Willis , the general secretary of the TUC , who once had the enlightening experience of watching a leaflet he had just delivered catch fire . |
28 | He found it difficult to reconcile the opulence he had just witnessed with the poverty of some of the surrounding districts . |
29 | But the face of the new usherette he had just engaged to replace her rapped his conscience like a dentist 's probe on a decayed tooth . |
30 | The news he had just imparted had had the effect he had expected . |