Example sentences of "[pron] had just take " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had just taken up my position behind the till of the kitchen gadget department and the store had been open only a matter of minutes when my first customer literally ran into view . |
| 2 | One day when we were vacationing in Santa Fe in 1943 my daughter , Jennifer , who was then 3 , asked me why she could not see the picture I had just taken of her . |
| 3 | I had just taken another look at Debonair — at Vron , my future stepmother . |
| 4 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 5 | ‘ Fuck off and leave you alone ! ’ echoed Quigley , as if I had just taken pi to sixteen decimal places off the top of my head . |
| 6 | Referring to the meeting which had just taken place in Dublin , Sir Patrick addressed the House of Commons thus : |
| 7 | She had just taken him to a psychiatrist who among many searching questions had asked the five-year-old : ‘ If your sister is a girl , what is your brother ? ’ |
| 8 | Poor Viola , she had just taken that indecent part for the money . |
| 9 | For the first class she had just taken two soft pencils , and she had sketched while the others had mixed watercolours for the still life of a bowl of apples , oranges and pears . |
| 10 | She had just taken a mouthful of the rather sour wormwood-flavoured wine when Anthony came breezily into the room . |
| 11 | At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales . |
| 12 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 13 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 14 | It had just taken him by surprise , her wanting to put flowers in an empty house . |
| 15 | That little bottle with the plastic spoon attached , it had just taken him back about five years . |
| 16 | But , rather than feed , he had just taken away Nielson 's reputation , his genius , his worldly stature . |
| 17 | With a screech of brakes , and a squeal of wheels , Bodie reversed into a parking space and shot back along the route he had just taken . |
| 18 | And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ . |
| 19 | Umpire Peter Wright upheld batsman Cook 's objection that if Akram was fit to bowl ( he had just taken five wickets ) then he should be able to field . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | He had just taken breath to shout again when there was a muffled bang . |
| 22 | He had just taken a call when Maggie arrived to eat . |