Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Frankfurt Airport I found I had just missed one plane to London and there was not another for three hours . |
| 2 | It seemed he had just lost the ferrule of his stick . |
| 3 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 4 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte estimated that Mrs McMullen had died at 6.30pm but it was at 9.45pm that McLean claimed she had just found the body . |
| 5 | When I joined they had just published The Thorn Birds so Futura was on a real high — it had expanded considerably over the previous 18 months . ’ |
| 6 | I 'll never forget the sense of joy that came over our evening congregation when Edwin announced we had just exceeded our target of £200,000 . |
| 7 | We decided we had just got to stay put in Bromley and in Fulham . |
| 8 | Glancing round , I saw I had just passed on the roadside a farm cottage — from which a young woman in an apron , her attention no doubt aroused by the horn , had come running . |
| 9 | I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . |
| 10 | We knew she had just been promoted at work , so it could n't be that . |
| 11 | I thought you had just become part of her growing up and learning about life . |
| 12 | It was with a certain sense of foreboding — as if we had seen an omen — that we descended from this mountain fastness to the domain of the Bugis , where we knew we had just two months left to find a prahu to carry us eastwards before the monsoon set in … |
| 13 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 14 | He did n't hate her , and he certainly did n't want to hurt her , but he knew he had just done the best thing he could ever do for Sandra Bamfield . |
| 15 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 17 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 18 | I thought he had just punched me but he must have produced a knife , ’ Mr Norrie mumbled through his swollen mouth . |
| 19 | The last time we met he had just bought a new boat , having taken up sailing in his spare time ( but he has n't much of that ) . |
| 20 | The auctioneer , Harry Pickering , came into the room and announced he had just heard on the wireless that the King had died . |
| 21 | Preston shrugged , as one did who had just single-handedly dispatched a Beast who Rode the Underground . |
| 22 | My mom said she had just the greatest time with you all last year . |
| 23 | A young woman , who was a final-year student at teacher 's training college , said she had just moved into the area , and knew very few people . |
| 24 | She asked them about the child and they said they had just found him . |
| 25 | He said it had just , . |
| 26 | And last night his widow Millie , also 55 , said he had just celebrated the birth of first grandson Jonathon . |
| 27 | He said he had just driven from Ladgate Lane when the man suddenly appeared in front of him . |
| 28 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 29 | He was mightily pissed off with me ; perhaps he wished he had just let them shoot me on the ground . |
| 30 | For a moment he thought she was going to hit him , and then her face turned crimson , her mouth started to bang to and fro like a door in a gale force wind and a sound came down her nose that suggested she had just swallowed a quart of White ’ s Cream Soda . |