Example sentences of "he had [adv] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had evidently just eaten a meal , for the remains of it lay in a red handkerchief open on the ground . |
| 2 | ( Actually , it was a triple because he had also just won the Canadian Open a few days before . ) |
| 3 | But even as he at last turned and , more like a conjurer than ever , whipped the cloth from the object on the table , which turned out to be a saucepan containing water scooped from the shattered font , the first heavy drops began to drum on the altar table ; and while the Padre was saying : " Hope Mary Ellen , I baptize thee In the name of the Father and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , Amen , " the Collector , forgetting that he had only just renounced an interest in the vain pomp and glory of the world , thought crossly : " That wo n't do the Louis XVI table any good at all . " |
| 4 | He had only just gone over there . |
| 5 | Involuntarily the landlord of the Feathers shivered , peering uncertainly up at this late wayfarer , whose peremptory summons on the front door had recalled him to undo the bolts he had only just shot to . |
| 6 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 7 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |
| 8 | He left Grace and Peggy behind with the intention of travelling for a while in Europe , but he had only just landed in South Africa when Grace realized that she was going to have another child . |
| 9 | If anything , he had only just got wound up . |
| 10 | He felt as if he had only just remembered , after a long time , why he valued her . |
| 11 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |
| 12 | He concentrated the Sandinista troops along the Honduran frontier ; offered to end arms imports until after the election ; gave assurances of safe conduct to returning rebels ; and then said he was ready to reinstate the ceasefire he had only just abrogated . |
| 13 | He had only just recovered from another bout of serious illness and was still extremely weak . |
| 14 | He had only just arrived , had n't even booked in . |
| 15 | Did I gather he had only just arrived back ? ’ |
| 16 | But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’ |
| 17 | He held an untidy bundle of towel and swimming trunks in his hand and a tennis racket lay on the back seat where he had obviously just flung it . |