Example sentences of "[pron] he had 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| 12 | He produced the unpublished manuscript of a book he has written about his experiment , which he had just had translated into English .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 | He pointed to the one he had just come out of . |
| 17 | It was half the size of the one he had just left , he noticed , unusually observant . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When one of Ken 's friends told her he had just bought a new television set — a 17-inch console — she commented : ‘ Seventeen inches ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | What he had just done was sentence her to another day of hell . |
| 24 | He could not believe what he had just lived through . |
| 25 | ‘ That probably sounds pompous , ’ adds Laing apologetically , reflecting on what he had just said . |
| 26 | ‘ Nice to meet you , Chief Inspector , ’ he said with automatic politeness , then considered what he had just said , decided it was beyond explanation and led them upstairs to his office . |
| 27 | But something nagged at her about what he had just said . |
| 28 | Then the comrade had repeated , word for word , what he had just said . |
| 29 | The superintendent asked if he really meant what he had just said . |
| 30 | His words rang in the clear air and she could feel her head swimming from the enormity of what he had just said . |