Example sentences of "[vb past] he had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 2 | It seemed he had just lost the ferrule of his stick . |
| 3 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 4 | He did n't hate her , and he certainly did n't want to hurt her , but he knew he had just done the best thing he could ever do for Sandra Bamfield . |
| 5 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 6 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 7 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 8 | I thought he had just punched me but he must have produced a knife , ’ Mr Norrie mumbled through his swollen mouth . |
| 9 | The last time we met he had just bought a new boat , having taken up sailing in his spare time ( but he has n't much of that ) . |
| 10 | The auctioneer , Harry Pickering , came into the room and announced he had just heard on the wireless that the King had died . |
| 11 | He said he had just driven from Ladgate Lane when the man suddenly appeared in front of him . |
| 12 | And last night his widow Millie , also 55 , said he had just celebrated the birth of first grandson Jonathon . |
| 13 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 14 | He was mightily pissed off with me ; perhaps he wished he had just let them shoot me on the ground . |