Example sentences of "[subord] i have 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 | Where I 've just dug . |
| 3 | Where I 've just dug there . |
| 4 | Notice that , although I have just summarized some of the teacher 's predicament that I described in Chapter 2 , we have arrived at the summary by a different route : not by reporting what people say , but by looking at the inevitable consequences of working in a demanding situation . |
| 5 | It put the wind up me , to tell you the truth , so I 've just brought Hawkbit along and left it at that . " |
| 6 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't be if I 'd just lost twenty million , ’ Plummer said humourlessly . |
| 8 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 9 | Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community . |
| 10 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 11 | I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that |
| 12 | " It 's as if I 'd just taken a photograph . " |
| 13 | ‘ The whole thing was a perfectly natural mistake , but , thanks to him , they went on as if I 'd just attempted to rob the Bank of England . |
| 14 | How can I face people when I must look as if I 've just gone ten rounds with an all-in wrestler ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Damn it , stop looking as if I 've just hit you again ! |
| 16 | He giggles a sudden twit-giggle as if I 've just farted and scrunches up his flipping funny face as if the stitches in some private part have just popped open , and at that moment he is the very image of a nervous comic wreak . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Sprechen kommandant , bitte , privaten , ’ I said very slowly , as if I had just learned these words and found difficulty in repeating them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The artist had fussed around while the thing was being loaded on my ship , babbling about how important it was and how delicate it was and so on , until I 'd just stopped listening . |
| 25 | I feel like I 've just woken up after a long dream ; ’ |
| 26 | I fiddle with my safety catch like I 've just finished on the firing range , and I lean back looking nonchalant because I 'm too weak to make a move . |
| 27 | I switched on the engine , closed my eyes and … felt like I 'd just stepped onto a corporation bus . |
| 28 | By 10.30pm the contractions were getting even stronger and I was beginning to feel like I 'd just finished running a marathon . |
| 29 | He said why , cos I 've just honked up . |
| 30 | Cos I 've just done words |