Example sentences of "[noun sg] he had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANDY Chipling sat back and admired the computer programme he had just completed , bent down to switch on his printer at the powerpoint and stared in horror as a week 's toil disappeared off the screen . |
| 2 | He was measuring the fear he had just felt . |
| 3 | The Prophet sprinted from the alley exit scant seconds before the first of the police cars roared out of the fog and screeched to a halt at the dark gap he had just left . |
| 4 | Ben , however , did not remark on the scene he had just witnessed , but said , ‘ There 's a friend of yours in the yard who would like to have a word with you . |
| 5 | He told Ram to kill her as well and hurried away to take refuge in the banqueting hall and try to erase from his mind the scene he had just witnessed . |
| 6 | Watching him stride away , hurt and humiliated by the shocking scene he had just witnessed , she wondered whether she should tell him her secret . |
| 7 | Mesmerised by the scene he had witnessed , and agonised by the scene he had just had with Mrs Figgis-Hewett , when he saw her costume and vainly attempted to dissuade her , Auguste recalled his prime duty and reluctantly despatched Alfred to the dining room to prepare for the serving of wines at the Prince 's table . |
| 8 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 9 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 10 | He would then hear the footsteps coming from the corridor he had just left ! |
| 11 | Grant 's hand darted for his torch , but even as his fingers touched it , the floor shook under him and he heard a tremendous rumbling crash in the corridor he had just left . |
| 12 | Fanshawe clearly thought that Quigley was the product of the chemical reaction he had just engendered . |
| 13 | Sliding into the warmth he had just left , inhaling the scent of him on the pillows , surrounded by his clothes , books and possessions , she could feel her resolve to keep him at arm 's length ebbing relentlessly away . |
| 14 | The most striking example of an ( unsuccessful ) attempt at bribery was described by an officer who was offered a free choice of goods from a manufacturer 's showroom if he would pour away a formal sample he had just taken ( see s. iii , ch. 6 ) . |
| 15 | He held a newly-made fish cake in his two hands like a cricket ball he had just caught . |
| 16 | This dismemberment of the kingdom he had just won is indicative of the underlying weakness of Balliol 's position . |
| 17 | The sink he had just cleaned was stained badly . |
| 18 | One of the best stories I recall was related by Norman Willis , the general secretary of the TUC , who once had the enlightening experience of watching a leaflet he had just delivered catch fire . |
| 19 | He found it difficult to reconcile the opulence he had just witnessed with the poverty of some of the surrounding districts . |
| 20 | But the face of the new usherette he had just engaged to replace her rapped his conscience like a dentist 's probe on a decayed tooth . |
| 21 | The news he had just imparted had had the effect he had expected . |
| 22 | A bespectacled , smartly dressed man was struggling to open the front passenger door of his parked car , while clutching a large paper bag of purchases from the all-night drug store he had just left . |
| 23 | He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen . |
| 24 | Curtis squinted up at the sheriff through the curling smoke of the cigarette he had just lit . |
| 25 | The man he had just killed had been with him the night he died . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And the Frenchman he had just killed might do so . |
| 29 | A MANIAC slashed a teenage girl 's throat with a knife he had just bought at a packed car boot sale . |
| 30 | That was a word he had just discovered . |