Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 2 | At Frankfurt Airport I found I had just missed one plane to London and there was not another for three hours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Finally , a protest from a woman who says she had just finished Helen Bullock 's ‘ oh-so-true ’ article when her husband came in and said : ’ ‘ There seems to be a bit of toast on the floor in the other room ’ . |
| 5 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 6 | It seemed he had just lost the ferrule of his stick . |
| 7 | If he had regretted his kiss the evening before , how on earth was he going to view what had just happened between them ? |
| 8 | ‘ You would n't believe someone had just tried to kill him . |
| 9 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte estimated that Mrs McMullen had died at 6.30pm but it was at 9.45pm that McLean claimed she had just found the body . |
| 10 | When I joined they had just published The Thorn Birds so Futura was on a real high — it had expanded considerably over the previous 18 months . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll never forget the sense of joy that came over our evening congregation when Edwin announced we had just exceeded our target of £200,000 . |
| 12 | We decided we had just got to stay put in Bromley and in Fulham . |
| 13 | It was clear from the note this couple loved their daughter very much — but it seems they had just reached the end of their tether . ’ |
| 14 | When Mrs Carlson went round she had a glass of something , excused herself from a chicken leg saying they had just eaten dinner . |
| 15 | Why did this man he had just begun to believe had no interest in him have to have chosen that book among the dozens of others ? |
| 16 | Glancing round , I saw I had just passed on the roadside a farm cottage — from which a young woman in an apron , her attention no doubt aroused by the horn , had come running . |
| 17 | She looked up and bit her lip , knowing Marc could tell she had just read it . |
| 18 | I thought you had just become part of her growing up and learning about life . |
| 19 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 20 | He did so ‘ to incapacitate him — to make him realise he had just injured one of my colleagues . ’ |
| 21 | He did n't hate her , and he certainly did n't want to hurt her , but he knew he had just done the best thing he could ever do for Sandra Bamfield . |
| 22 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 23 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 24 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 25 | I thought he had just punched me but he must have produced a knife , ’ Mr Norrie mumbled through his swollen mouth . |
| 26 | The last time we met he had just bought a new boat , having taken up sailing in his spare time ( but he has n't much of that ) . |
| 27 | The auctioneer , Harry Pickering , came into the room and announced he had just heard on the wireless that the King had died . |
| 28 | The thirty minutes Roman had allowed her had just ended when he came into the sitting-room . |
| 29 | I think he had just got bored and was looking for something to do , so he sought to amuse . ’ |
| 30 | Prentice turned his head to see what had just missed him , making the finger-rubbing gesture and whispering ‘ Puss … puss … ’ which is something I 've noticed a lot of people who have n't met Springsteen do . |