Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked to switch her mind to something else , and because it was essential to leave the autobahn after what had just happened . |
| 2 | He and Fonda retired to their trailer , smoked some marijuana and then came out and told the crowd of local youths that they should imagine that the two of them had just arrived in town , and , on the way , they had picked up a local girl of fifteen , and raped and left her in the bushes . |
| 3 | She had taken off her coat , somehow contrived to make herself seem a little dishevelled , as though the two of them had just been snogging on the sofa or something . |
| 4 | The pair of them had just quietly fossilised together . |
| 5 | And three of them had just been whipped from under me . |
| 6 | Then Pike , or Pike 's body anyway , fiopped all over Quigley as if the two of them had just been exchanging bodily fiuids . |
| 7 | Scarlet could not now imagine how she had passed the week with the house next door empty and soulless : she tidied the kitchen in readiness for her friend 's return and sat down to read the local paper , two copies of which had just been delivered through the letterbox . |
| 8 | ‘ It sounds like a convenient arrangement , ’ Luke commented urbanely , and Maria saw his lip curl sardonically , as if everything he believed of her had just been confirmed . |
| 9 | First it was a little bit of yellow fish for her landlady 's cat — the poor thing was half starved — then it was a bulb for her bedside lamp , and lastly she remembered that a friend of hers had just opened in a play in Manchester and there just might be a review in the evening paper . |
| 10 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 11 | And so in the blazing heat of the next day Martha was supplied with a small replica of the new green , black and gold Jamaican flag and hoisted on to her stepfather 's shoulders at the gates of what had just ceased to be the colonial governor 's mansion , to see a small erect figure in the back of a Rolls-Royce drive slowly away . |
| 12 | So the possibility was that the leadership there , if any , would not be fully aware of what had just developed . |
| 13 | It was only when he had followed Cornelius most of the way across the room that the significance of what had just happened dawned on him . |
| 14 | At the death , Mike Procter , the South African coach , stood ashen-faced and speechless for a full 10 minutes on the pavilion steps , unable to take in what had just transpired . |
| 15 | Exiting from the outer gates , Satan saw another man-thing — in this case the tall figure of Nate Springfield — and swerved left to lead his decimated pack away from any further fire-and-thunder attacks , such as they had just painfully experienced . |
| 16 | But Ron Evans 's new concept for our programme , based on a degree of informality — with always space left at the end for viewers ' reaction to what had just been seen — and the new style of chatty presentation changed things . |
| 17 | Sapped of all energy , Belinda fell listlessly through the door , let it drift shut behind her and slumped on the bed , utterly confused about what had just happened . |
| 18 | How dare he look so composed , so unaffected by what had just happened between them , when her own stomach felt as if it were the epicentre of an earthquake ? |