Example sentences of "[subord] he had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam had only picked the car up three days earlier from his boss at the Congleton , Cheshire , firm where he had just started work . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Are you leaving me already ! ’ he said , seeming surprised , although he had just told me to go , ‘ and so coldly ? ’ |
| 4 | I shone my torch at him and he made a face like he had just chewed a lemon : ‘ I 'm going to have to pull from higher up — I guess it 's the knot . ’ |
| 5 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 6 | ‘ If he had just painted a cushion instead ! ’ sighed one viewer , as it was bought in at $140,000 ( £80,459 ) ( est. $25–275,000 ) . |
| 7 | And here they were , nearly twenty-odd children , gaping back at him as if he had just asked them to run through the periodic table . |
| 8 | He stopped at the foot of the stairs as if he had just escorted her there and was off somewhere else . |
| 9 | He cocked his head to one side as if he had just realised something awful . |
| 10 | He felt as if he had just run fifty yards , rather quickly . |
| 11 | So many times she had felt as if he had just steamrollered his way right over her , refusing to listen to her arguments , just using his overpowering physical and mental strength to get his own way . |
| 12 | He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin . |
| 13 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 14 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 15 | He looked as if he had just stepped straight out of one of those bespoke tailors in Saville Row in London 's West End . |
| 16 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 17 | He was beginning to feel as if he had just switched roller-coasters — from one set of emotional turmoil to another . |
| 18 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 19 | There was , anyway , an atmosphere in this shop , an unpleasant feeling , as if he had just walked through a gateway into a world parallel to our own , where huge and unpleasant moral choices are offered , fought over and discussed . |
| 20 | He was aware of a slow feeling of triumph , a sense of release as if he had just won some physical competition ; without the fear there would n't have been this strange sense of excitement and content . |
| 21 | ‘ If he had just left me there I could have died . ’ |
| 22 | He sat back , breathing deeply , taking in the elegance of the shapes the boy had made , recollecting the startling originality of the boy 's strategies — as if he had just re-invented the game . |
| 23 | This heartened D'Arcy , because he had just converted this former communist to Catholicism . |
| 24 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 25 | Mr Boyd had patients waiting , a fact I do not quite understand , since he had just told Boswell and Johnson the story of one of Lord Errol 's tenants . |
| 26 | He judged five minutes was long enough for that , a lifetime when you are five , and since he had just learned how to tell the time he watched the clock over her shoulder . |
| 27 | For Henry II this was an opportunity not to be missed , particularly convenient since he had just laid his hands on the lordship of Deols . |
| 28 | The day before he had just bumped into Mauve , ‘ happily delivered of his large picture , ’ who had promised to call in . |
| 29 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 30 | That had been when he had just engaged himself to me . |