Example sentences of "[noun] he had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Curtis squinted up at the sheriff through the curling smoke of the cigarette he had just lit . |
| 32 | The man he had just killed had been with him the night he died . |
| 33 | This was a variation on the routine he would put himself through every time after a man he had just slept with had left the flat ; he would check his body for scratches , bruises and teethmarks . |
| 34 | As he sat in a roaring solitary splendour twenty thousand feet over the turbulent , endless ocean wastes , he had no idea of the appropriateness of the poem he had just read . |
| 35 | And the Frenchman he had just killed might do so . |
| 36 | A MANIAC slashed a teenage girl 's throat with a knife he had just bought at a packed car boot sale . |
| 37 | That was a word he had just discovered . |
| 38 | In a mild voice he had just asked the porter to come up , with some story about a tap dripping in the kitchen . |
| 39 | Another dealer owed a few hundred pounds by the director of a firm he had just left , drove one night with some friends to his house , where they flung bricks through every window . |
| 40 | In 386 Ambrose moved relics he had just discovered in a Milan suburb to one of the new churches he had built to ring the growing city with prestigious sanctuaries ; it was a well thought out act . |
| 41 | As Montgomery showed the professor to the door , he was struck by areas of similarity between the story he had just heard , and the past history of Sergeant Bird . |
| 42 | He told her he had been thinking of the text he had just learnt , ‘ Prepare to meet thy God , ’ and perhaps he might die tonight , and he did not know if he was ready , if his sins were all forgiven … |
| 43 | With a screech of brakes , and a squeal of wheels , Bodie reversed into a parking space and shot back along the route he had just taken . |
| 44 | I can not resist retelling one of the anecdotes : in 1963 , at a party to congratulate Cotton on an award he had just received , Lipscomb told Cotton that while he was delighted by the choice , it should not be supposed that he was on the ‘ cottonpickin' ’ committee . |
| 45 | He thought her pain was physical , of course , and his voice was only rendered husky by the sexual experience he had just had . |
| 46 | For some reason he had just remembered poor old Eddy Moulton . |
| 47 | Was he aware of the challenge he was presenting to the world he had just left and , in any case , did n't the role reversal situation feel slightly strange ? |
| 48 | But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven . |
| 49 | Ward 's left hand crashed down on the table , spilling coffee from the cup he had just filled . |
| 50 | He could not make out its face but saw it was looking through the book he had just found with the complicated title . |
| 51 | And I do n't want you touching anything of mine , ’ she added fiercely , wrenching out of his hand a book he had just picked up . |
| 52 | He was sitting at his desk , reading a letter he had just written . |
| 53 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 54 | The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest . |
| 55 | So Sarazen took on a young caddie , who , it transpired , seemed to do all the things that even the caddies of today would not dream of doing , like pulling the clubs without consultation with Sarazen , and then , if the club did not work , telling Sarazen he had just hit a bad shot — it was not his club selection at fault . |
| 56 | If he never said it again , the way he had just expressed himself to her would last for the rest of her life . |
| 57 | Peacock shoved everything into a turn , straining to get a view of the airfield he had just left . |
| 58 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 59 | No doubt he had just given something to Mrs Files . |
| 60 | He felt sick at the memory of the beasts he had just seen . |