Example sentences of "[adv] he had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I spoke with him yesterday he had just returned from the funeral of his father-in-law , who had died after months of cancer . |
| 2 | His voice was alert , not the least bit sleepy , although clearly he had just woken . |
| 3 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 4 | And yet he had just said — she shook her head and stood up . |
| 5 | Also for most of the time at this period in their affair Boy was either slightly drugged , or drunk , or exhausted ; and he was in a permanent state of sexual tension , for either he had just come from O's bed or he was on his way to it . |
| 6 | Anyway , Benguiat made up to him and gave him a big kiss and then the next day things got bad again because Parkinson was going to in room number two above this floor to sort out his slides and Benguiat had been in there and evidently he had just decided to tuck his shirt in and loosen his trousers and while he was tucking his shirt in Parkinson came in and says aha , caught you with your pants down , and Benguiat storms out of the room . |