Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb past] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara said as Slater , turning briefly to greet somebody he had just passed , came over to them . |
| 2 | It deadened his days and brought him upright in the night , running with sweat and fear , his arms held out clutching the gun with which he had just shot his mother . |
| 3 | In those moments , those final moments as he took her and reached ecstasy , she had been able to believe he loved her , felt something for her ; and , though she knew he did not , she was moved , wanted to retain those precious moments which he had just given her when he had finally stripped the mask away and let her see how human he was as he merged with her and lost himself inside her . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , be quiet , do , you stupid dog ! ’ scolded the housekeeper , slapping the animal smartly on his nose so that he leapt back down off the bed on to which he had just jumped . |
| 5 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |
| 6 | In 1944 her son , Dr Istvan Csicsery-Rónay , prevailed on the Soviet commander to return the contents , with which he had just made off . |
| 7 | Later , when they lay quiet and apart once more , Maria thought about his attitude , adding it to the oddly driven way in which he had just made love to her . |
| 8 | The Act which he had just steered through Parliament faced Emanuel with difficult choices : should it remain fully independent and operate outside the State system , or should it be incorporated within the local provision of schooling and become a voluntary-aided school ? |
| 9 | Dad was not prepared to stand any more and got out of the chair into which he had just flopped . |
| 10 | Morse held up the photograph of Theodore Kemp which he had just removed from the living room . |
| 11 | He nodded in the direction of the medieval arch through which he had just driven . |
| 12 | He produced the unpublished manuscript of a book he has written about his experiment , which he had just had translated into English . |
| 13 | As an example , he opened a case of red mullet — the fashionable restaurant fish of the moment — which he had just bought . |
| 14 | When he bent to the floor and picked up her dress and draped it anyhow over her , though making sure that her breasts , which he had just termed ‘ exquisite ’ , were covered , she knew he was very much off her too . |
| 15 | Reporting on Nov. 21 on the results of his week-long tour of Eastern Europe from which he had just returned , Botha noted the establishment of consular ties with Czechoslovakia and Romania . |
| 16 | Everything he owned just to have it in his hands for a few hours . |
| 17 | So he says to the oldest one he said just do ah , he said three four kick or something |
| 18 | He pointed to the one he had just come out of . |
| 19 | It was half the size of the one he had just left , he noticed , unusually observant . |
| 20 | Patrick explained it should be stiff enough in the first place in order to stay up , achieved with the help of a product like the one he 'd just used . |
| 21 | When I had a chat with him he had just celebrated Gala 's triumph at Heriot 's FP U21 sevens , in which his centre was older brother Craig . |
| 22 | When I met him he 'd just done his shopping for two weeks . |
| 23 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
| 24 | When one of Ken 's friends told her he had just bought a new television set — a 17-inch console — she commented : ‘ Seventeen inches ? |
| 25 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 26 | When I complained to one of the newspaper 's senior editors , he told me he had just rejected an article highly critical of me and ray position . |
| 27 | A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr Sasaki had been walking was dead ; Dr Sasaki 's patient whom he had just left was also dead . |
| 28 | WITH the ice cracking and groaning underfoot and the wind etching their faces , Robert Swan stood at the North Pole and turned to the woman for whom he had just walked to the end of the earth . |
| 29 | If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different . |
| 30 | Er he he 'd just taken some photographs out of last year 's er annual report and put a heading up and stuck some text on it . |