Example sentences of "[conj] he had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam had only picked the car up three days earlier from his boss at the Congleton , Cheshire , firm where he had just started work . |
| 2 | When we said we could not recall the SoS intervening to revise county estimates of population growth downwards ( although he had just intervened to revise Gwynedd 's upwards ) we were told that of course Mr Hunt shares the counties ' desire for growth and expansion . |
| 3 | Are you leaving me already ! ’ he said , seeming surprised , although he had just told me to go , ‘ and so coldly ? ’ |
| 4 | Last week , my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science said that he was not going to tell teachers how to teach in primary schools or pre-empt the outcome of the inquiry that he had just announced . |
| 5 | He had a serious expression on his face and there were no signs that he had just escaped a raging inferno . |
| 6 | Miller next wrote on 15 February 1757 reporting that he had just received a letter from Bartram , written at the beginning of November , with the ‘ disagreeable account that neither of my letters , wrote last summer ’ had arrived and thus some of his important queries had not been considered . |
| 7 | The Exec Director gave the DDA a number that he had just received from his bureau chief in London . |
| 8 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |
| 9 | He parked the machine and announced to a stunned crowd that he had just retired . |
| 10 | He realized that he had just murmured something under his breath . |
| 11 | In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One ! |
| 12 | Considering that he had just made a pointless journey of several thousand miles , the young man seemed remarkably equable and spent almost the entire journey sitting cross-legged , spooning purple yoghurt into his mouth from an enormous jar and reading a novel by Thomas Mann . |
| 13 | And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ . |
| 14 | Jones had already used a variety of materials , one of which was palladium , and was preparing to obtain the final proof with his detector that he had just spent two years building . |
| 15 | If you read my brief interview with Yngwie , back in April , you will recall that he had just released his tenth album ‘ Fire and Ice ’ and was touring the world to promote it . |
| 16 | Given Brainerd 's background in the publishing industry , mainly newspapers , and the fact that he had just left Atex it is hardly surprising that the program was designed around the traditional ‘ cut and paste ’ working methods . |
| 17 | Tommaso said , quickly , that he could not stay , that he had just had something to drink , anyway , in town . |
| 18 | He found it strange that he had just buried Tosspot who used to clean the platters and tankards in this very tavern . |
| 19 | The simplest explanation was that he had just got tired of Jacqui . |
| 20 | At the same time , Coleridge 's mother in-law , Mrs Fricker , also seemed on the point of death at the house in Oxford Street , Kingsdown , that he had just found for Sara and himself on the north side of the city . |
| 21 | Boldwood was standing near the fire , and he had just noticed that a group of villagers were whispering among themselves . |
| 22 | Nathan Cohen was one of them , and he had just cause to fear the upturn of the events , as did his younger brother , Horace . |
| 23 | His name was Mason , and he had just returned from the West Indies , where Mr Rochester had once lived . |
| 24 | John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) . |
| 25 | I shone my torch at him and he made a face like he had just chewed a lemon : ‘ I 'm going to have to pull from higher up — I guess it 's the knot . ’ |
| 26 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 27 | ‘ If he had just painted a cushion instead ! ’ sighed one viewer , as it was bought in at $140,000 ( £80,459 ) ( est. $25–275,000 ) . |
| 28 | And here they were , nearly twenty-odd children , gaping back at him as if he had just asked them to run through the periodic table . |
| 29 | He stopped at the foot of the stairs as if he had just escorted her there and was off somewhere else . |
| 30 | He cocked his head to one side as if he had just realised something awful . |