Example sentences of "[pron] had just [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had just finished building a 16-track studio in my house and asked him to come and have a go on that equipment that even the very big studios did n't have . |
| 2 | I had just finished serving a glass to a gentleman when a voice behind me said : ‘ Ah , Stevens , you 're interested in fish , you say . ’ |
| 3 | The next day I had just managed to sneak home and hide when Death arrived . |
| 4 | I was given soup from the middle pot , meaning I had just managed to achieve my work quota . |
| 5 | I had just started working as a landscape architect for a water authority , and my duties were to involve planting trees around reservoirs and new office buildings . |
| 6 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 7 | I wanted to know why she thought I would be the least bit interested in all that drivel I had just had to sit through . |
| 8 | ‘ You would n't believe someone had just tried to kill him . |
| 9 | Lord Hulton looked down at the animal which had just stopped breathing . |
| 10 | The sky above the glittering slate roofs was as blue as the curious lilies which had just begun to come out under the dining-room window , trumpet flowers set like the seed-head of a dandelion but as blue as — the sky . |
| 11 | He looked briefly down at his plate , which had just arrived bearing succulent-looking food and wafting a tempting aroma , then glanced up at her again . |
| 12 | To the crowd who assembled , the Provo Sergeant announced that anyone giving credit to members of the regiment which had just arrived did so at their own risk . |
| 13 | The suspicions of the two shore watchers were soon aroused by the activities of the Ann Lynn , one of the local boats which had just arrived to land a party of sea anglers . |
| 14 | She had just begun to veil . |
| 15 | She had just begun to settle into her neat flat , and although it was n't furnished expensively the few pieces she had were chosen with loving care . |
| 16 | She had just begun to tear it open when there was a loud , heavy knock at the front door . |
| 17 | She had just begun to worry about the honeymoon , finding an image of Hywel in Benidorm particularly elusive , when she was summoned by the doctor . |
| 18 | She tried to keep her tone light , matter-of-fact , but her mother swung round from the sink where she had just begun to prepare vegetables for lunch , and her father lowered his paper and peered over his glasses at her . |
| 19 | She had just emerged to frown at the Manport , wearing a plain dark coverall that made no concession to dressing up for important company . |
| 20 | Apparently he was under the impression that she had arranged to see Richard again tonight ; he was also under the delusion that Richard was a Belgian whom she had just happened to pick up . |
| 21 | He liked Hana 's mother well enough but she had just refused to learn any English at all , and every visit was a strain . |
| 22 | She felt certain then that he must be thinking that if she was any sort of a journalist that she could do quite a write-up out of the considerable time she had just spent walking in his sole company . |
| 23 | She arrived one day in the clinic in the peak of health and triumphantly announced that she had just got married and was setting out to live in Palm Springs with her husband . |
| 24 | This was just what Artemis did n't want , some thruster charging up behind Hullabaloo whom she had just got settled , and trying to make a race of it , particularly with the big hedge fast approaching at the bottom of the dip . |
| 25 | She had just finished combing her hair when the housekeeper returned carrying a lightweight metal crutch , and began diffidently , ‘ Signorina , I thought perhaps … ’ |
| 26 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 27 | She had just finished dressing when the telephone rang . |
| 28 | She had just finished drinking her tea when the door opened and Roman came purposefully towards her . |
| 29 | There was a chest of drawers in her room , and she had just finished folding away other articles of clothing when she heard voices in the sitting-room . |
| 30 | She had just finished arranging the flowers when Irene and Douglas returned , followed by an excited Domino . |