Example sentences of "[noun sg] i had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the jury were such well-known ‘ independent ’ commentators as Rodney Bickerstaffe of NUPE , a Regional Health Authority Chairman I had just replaced , a nurses ' negotiator , a consultant who wanted more money for his hospital and an ancillary health worker . |
| 2 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |
| 3 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 4 | I thought he looked upset , so I did n't mention the pantomime I had just witnessed and instead offered to make him a cup of tea . |
| 5 | One day when we were vacationing in Santa Fe in 1943 my daughter , Jennifer , who was then 3 , asked me why she could not see the picture I had just taken of her . |
| 6 | The next day I had just managed to sneak home and hide when Death arrived . |
| 7 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 8 | He flicked two inches of ash on the floor and sat down on the edge of the bed I had just vacated . |
| 9 | My real interest — beyond my own cancer — was the world I had just entered , those twin factors that made this visit so very different from my last one , age and illness . |
| 10 | The subject was a book I had just published on the history of the world over the past 60 years . |