Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water-trough was about twelve yards from the barn door where I had just appeared ; and between the door and the water-trough was a single post . |
| 2 | She wore riding clothes and her long dark hair hung loose where she had just unfastened it . |
| 3 | Travis glanced at his watch and sighed , rising from the table in Paige 's room where they had just enjoyed a long , leisurely breakfast . |
| 4 | They were seated , as was their custom , in the summer-house , where they had just finished a light lunch . |
| 5 | Adam had only picked the car up three days earlier from his boss at the Congleton , Cheshire , firm where he had just started work . |
| 6 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 7 | At a conservative estimate they had cost considerably more than she had just paid for her night 's lodging . |
| 8 | As we moored up the late shipping forecast was giving warnings of south-easterly gales for the area , so we had just made it in time . |
| 9 | In accepting Murav'ev 's proposals the regime made plain that , although it had just committed itself firmly to the emancipation of the serfs ( in the Nazimov Rescript ) , it was not yet prepared to adopt the principle of decentralization or to move towards provincial self-government . |
| 10 | When we said we could not recall the SoS intervening to revise county estimates of population growth downwards ( although he had just intervened to revise Gwynedd 's upwards ) we were told that of course Mr Hunt shares the counties ' desire for growth and expansion . |
| 11 | Are you leaving me already ! ’ he said , seeming surprised , although he had just told me to go , ‘ and so coldly ? ’ |
| 12 | The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door , and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could , under these circumstances and in some pain , treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before , and talk to me about this and that , and nothing at all . |
| 13 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 14 | Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth . |
| 15 | Feeling as if I had just won a gold medal , I ran home , carefully examined my treasure to find that the ‘ bone ’ handle was only painted tin . |
| 16 | ‘ Fuck off and leave you alone ! ’ echoed Quigley , as if I had just taken pi to sixteen decimal places off the top of my head . |
| 17 | ‘ Sprechen kommandant , bitte , privaten , ’ I said very slowly , as if I had just learned these words and found difficulty in repeating them . |
| 18 | Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one . |
| 19 | He looked as if someone had just hung a mop on his nose . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh no , ’ she said , ‘ oh no , ’ in a shocked , incredulous way as if someone had just slapped her in the face . |
| 21 | His chest hurt and he felt sick , as if someone had just kicked him in the gut . |
| 22 | Jessamy felt the touch of his lips again and shivered deeply , as if someone had just walked over her grave . |
| 23 | But that might have left you , the reader , with an empty feeling — like you had just eaten a dozen vol-au-vents when it was actually a three-course meal that you ordered . |
| 24 | She felt as guilty about running away as if she had just robbed a lame beggar of his last groat . |
| 25 | Meeting his eyes , their expression now cool and shuttered , Luce wondered if she had just imagined that blazing look . |
| 26 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 27 | Not if she had just moved . |
| 28 | Sybil made a faint tutting noise and shuddered , as if she had just discovered an unpleasant insect on one of her flowers . |
| 29 | Nicolo had flung his head back ; he was laughing as if she had just told the world 's funniest joke . |
| 30 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |