Example sentences of "[n mass] had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two-seater Chipmunk aircraft had just taken off when it unexpectedly veered sharpley back towards the runway . |
| 2 | The big house ( Brigade H.Q ) was also deserted , the transport and the staff had just left , except the jeep still standing in the driveway . |
| 3 | The British people had just elected a Conservative Government , headed by Britain 's first ever woman Prime Minister , who had already earned the reputation of being ‘ the best man for the job ’ in the Conservative Party . |
| 4 | A group of people had just finished haytiming at a farm called Pikestone , in Holwick , and began to cross the swing bridge across the Tees . |
| 5 | And indeed , four people had just arrived to join them at the table . |
| 6 | The theory of the adaptation of species had just taken seed . |
| 7 | In Beirut the siege of the Palestinian refugee camps by the Amal militia had just ended and the starving inmates were finally being allowed to leave . |