Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben and I had just given a recital in Vienna . |
| 2 | Although surgery was a mutilation , and I had just lost a kidney , that seemed nothing compared with the loss of a beautiful head of hair . |
| 3 | That evening , pacing the floor of his chamber before the most able of his mormaers and his churchmen , he had said , ‘ What would I do if I were Siward and I had just lost all hope of my heirs ruling Northumbria ? |
| 4 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 5 | ‘ I was in Switzerland on a pre-season tour and I had just missed out on sign ing Dean Saunders , ’ he said . |
| 6 | He looked down at me as if he were a giant and I had just climbed a beanstalk . |
| 7 | When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl . |
| 8 | He sort of bounced off the wall as if he was on a piece of elastic and someone had just yanked it from the other end . |
| 9 | And someone had just stubbed a cigarette out in Niki 's cake . |
| 10 | The hearth had been very badly damaged in Georgian times and somebody had just dug a pit straight through the middle of it , perhaps for drainage . |
| 11 | I was kneeling down and you had just fallen on the floor . |
| 12 | And she had just turned on the TV , hoping for a late news-programme , when she heard the light knock on her bedroom door . |
| 13 | And she had just made love to a stranger . |
| 14 | She looked at Roman , so strong and dependable ; any woman would give thanks every day of her life for a man like him , and she had just ruined any chance she had of being that woman . |
| 15 | Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance . |
| 16 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 17 | I was still in the middle of training Dawn and she had just started to fly free . |
| 18 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 19 | There was a chest of drawers in her room , and she had just finished folding away other articles of clothing when she heard voices in the sitting-room . |
| 20 | A crocodile handbag lay on the table and she had just slipped off her new Italian shoes . |
| 21 | She followed , trying to spot a public phone , and she had just caught sight of one at the corner of the building when he came out of the office , a key in his hand . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 23 | It seemed reckless to press on , and we had just passed a safe , if inconvenient , landing site . |
| 24 | In fact it was only a minute or so from the M27 and we had just passed over the Queen Elizabeth Bridge at Dartford . |
| 25 | Gerry 's ship had been in the Albert Dock and they had just finished papering the front bedroom . |
| 26 | Boldwood was standing near the fire , and he had just noticed that a group of villagers were whispering among themselves . |
| 27 | Nathan Cohen was one of them , and he had just cause to fear the upturn of the events , as did his younger brother , Horace . |
| 28 | His name was Mason , and he had just returned from the West Indies , where Mr Rochester had once lived . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | dressing gown and it had just gone straight up and the flame |