Example sentences of "[that] had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at Ronni as though she were a particularly disappointing novelty that had just fallen out of his Christmas cracker . |
| 2 | She gave her friend a significant glance and then clamped her lips together , in a parody of someone who was not going to say whatever it was that had just crossed her mind . |
| 3 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |
| 4 | She was very doubtful whether this arrangement would continue , but it suited her purpose to conceal the row that had just occurred . |
| 5 | Panic , that was the first reaction to whatever it was that had just happened . |
| 6 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
| 7 | After all that had just happened , his apparent lack of emotion was impossible to bear , and a wave of anger washed over her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 10 | After all , here was a company that had just performed unparalleled feats . |
| 11 | Their beauty outstanding , Their grace unmatched , Their tender babies that had just hatched . |
| 12 | My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me . |
| 13 | Right now there was more danger in the strange , yielding weakness that had just taken her by surprise . |
| 14 | At last , pulling herself together , she went to give Joanna and Helen a watered-down version of the scene that had just taken place — watered-down because , for some subconscious reason , she felt that Dawn 's story was not quite believable . |
| 15 | As their lips met , she knew in a flash that this kiss of love was even more wonderful than the words that had just thrilled her . |
| 16 | They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn . |
| 17 | On one occasion he was about to go on board a ship that had just anchored when unforeseen business detained him . |
| 18 | She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true . |
| 19 | While the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum , he helped in creating the new displays for the Museum 's collection of classical antiquities that had just come out of wartime storage . |
| 20 | Johnson 's , I was soon to learn , was typical of other South Seas stores — more like a warehouse than a shop , with new lines that had just arrived by boat piled up against the shelves of the barn-like building . |
| 21 | Before I knew what I desired , the desire itself was gone , the whole glimpse withdrawn , the world turned commonplace again , or only stirred by a longing that had just ceased . |