Example sentences of "[pron] had just [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 2 | When I had just erected the tent , Paddy laid aside his empty plate , strolled over , opened a locker and , with an expression of humorous disgust , peered inside and said , ‘ What d' you keep in there ? |
| 3 | ‘ I had just reached the age where such things were becoming of interest to me , and it was n't too long after the Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth when my sister and I had collected as many photos as we could lay our hands on . ’ |
| 4 | Although surgery was a mutilation , and I had just lost a kidney , that seemed nothing compared with the loss of a beautiful head of hair . |
| 5 | But I wish I had just stayed a worker , |
| 6 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 7 | ( I must tell here the story of a charming American lady who approached me when I had just given a talk on regression therapy . |
| 8 | Ben and I had just given a recital in Vienna . |
| 9 | Feeling as if I had just won a gold medal , I ran home , carefully examined my treasure to find that the ‘ bone ’ handle was only painted tin . |
| 10 | He looked down at me as if he were a giant and I had just climbed a beanstalk . |
| 11 | I had just left the shelter of my brolly as a pout started to rattle my rod tip when a 5 oz sinker ripped a hole through my brolly . |
| 12 | ‘ I had just left the managing director at a site meeting in Middlesex at around 6.30 one evening when the carphone rang . |
| 13 | Madam Deputy Speaker , erm there 'll be no need for any pruning from the chair because I had just mentioned the word banks at the very point that you madam speaker , got up and I can assure that er pruning would not be in order . |
| 14 | He looked as if someone had just hung a mop on his nose . |
| 15 | ‘ As though someone had just scrubbed the place out . |
| 16 | And someone had just stubbed a cigarette out in Niki 's cake . |
| 17 | Fran felt as though someone had just knocked the breath out of her and fought to speak . |
| 18 | The hearth had been very badly damaged in Georgian times and somebody had just dug a pit straight through the middle of it , perhaps for drainage . |
| 19 | He had a small touring company which had just suffered a couple of deaths in a carriage accident , and he was looking for two versatile and experienced ( yes ! ) players . |
| 20 | As late as 1792 , Sir Robert Ainslie , Murray 's successor , complained that by not being called on to mediate in the peace negotiations which had just produced the Russo-Turkish treaty of Jassy he had lost the opportunity to make about £30,000 in presents from both sides , though this was probably a great exaggeration . |
| 21 | Southey himself had just suffered an unpleasant shock of a different kind . |
| 22 | Apparently Lilian 's arthritis was ‘ troubling her ’ and he himself had just had a ‘ nasty dose of flu ’ . |
| 23 | Sybil made a faint tutting noise and shuddered , as if she had just discovered an unpleasant insect on one of her flowers . |
| 24 | Some hours after the alleged attack , Sharon McLean ran out of the Peace Gardens in Holt Street , near Wrexham police station , and pretended that she had just discovered the body , the jury was told . |
| 25 | She had just poured the boiling water on the tea and was standing waiting for it to brew when she heard Alex 's footsteps on the stairs and , turning , she saw his tall figure blocking the kitchen door . |
| 26 | She had just met a small girl who possessed , or so it seemed to her , quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She felt as guilty about running away as if she had just robbed a lame beggar of his last groat . |
| 29 | She had just saved the situation with Jim . |
| 30 | Frau Gess telephoned very early in the morning to say that she had just called the doctor . |