Example sentences of "[pron] had just [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 2 | I had just stood up , fully clothed by the doorway , when one of the harmonisers stopped with a snort and a wakeful chomp of his lips . |
| 3 | But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road . |
| 4 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 5 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was in Switzerland on a pre-season tour and I had just missed out on sign ing Dean Saunders , ’ he said . |
| 7 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |
| 8 | I was twenty-one , I had just come out of Sweden and my eyes were like saucers . |
| 9 | I went down the Kentucky in the High Street the other day , I had just come out , I was just standing there , when these black kids come up and start jostling me and then they nicks my chicken and chips . |
| 10 | Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one . |
| 11 | I had just taken up my position behind the till of the kitchen gadget department and the store had been open only a matter of minutes when my first customer literally ran into view . |
| 12 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 13 | Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’ |
| 14 | I had just come out of one of my planning meetings and I metaphorically banged the table and said ‘ I know exactly what you should do . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I had just got up , ’ said the cook . |
| 16 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 17 | I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house . |
| 18 | Mr Wheeler , now moving to the rear of the plant to show off the £2m smoke-cleaning section , which had just broken down , pointed out that his company achieved destruction of at least 99.9999 per cent of all materials . |
| 19 | Perhaps , like Meredith Jones , Lloyd 's natural interest and generosity were spurred on both by the obvious scarcity of opportunity for the children in that industrial beehive and by the war which had just broken out . |
| 20 | Doug Whitney was in the air and was credited with shooting down one Bf109 which had just shot down one of the Hurricanes . |
| 21 | Then Angel vaulted back on to his pony , which had just tottered groggily to its feet , and galloped back to the stables . |
| 22 | Hordes of grumbly Leeds fans left one place which had just shut up shop . |
| 23 | By noon all the squadron 's reserve aircraft were in use , and the mechanics were sucking blood from cut fingers and grazed knuckles as they worked too fast on battered planes which had just creaked home with streaming canvas and smashed spars , or labouring engines , or cracked fuel lines , or crippled controls , or lopsided under-carriage . |
| 24 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 25 | He sent the clerk hurrying into the back room to get a dark grey suit which had just come in and then said : ‘ Going to New York ? |
| 26 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 27 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 28 | Lucy Lane arrived : in a green frock figured in black , dark hair expertly set , a shoulder bag matching her frock ; she looked as though she had just stepped out of her BMW runabout for a spot of window shopping . |
| 29 | For some reason she found what she had just said enormously funny , and exploded into the phone with a fruity laugh before putting down her receiver . |
| 30 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |