Example sentences of "he had just [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had just reached the box when a man on a bicycle appeared at the far end of the street . |
| 2 | He had just shut the door , locking it from ingrained habit , when the front-door bell rang . |
| 3 | He had just heard the full story from Nigel Cramer in his office atop the Home Office building . |
| 4 | He had just heard the banqueting hall cannons fire , which must mean that the sepoys were attempting an attack from the flank ; he hoped that their attack had not succeeded because he and his men had more than they could cope with already . |
| 5 | He had just spun the thought expressed in the sentence ‘ I 'm going to kill you ’ into three paragraphs of civilised threat . |
| 6 | He had just broken the news to them about Philpott . |
| 7 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | HE HAD just flown the Atlantic and was making a three-hour pit stop in New York before catching a connecting flight to Chicago later that evening . |
| 10 | It seemed he had just lost the ferrule of his stick . |
| 11 | The old farmer looked at me in surprise , then glanced around as though he had just noticed the weather . |
| 12 | The Judge held the air of someone very world-weary , and this was accurate to some extent , as he had just re-read the case notes , and sensed today was going to be another long day . |
| 13 | He had just turned the first furrow when a tiger walked up and said : " Peace be with you , friend . |
| 14 | He told them about Marylebone , the night at the hotel , the terms Zack had laid down for the rendezvous , and how he had just made the deadline . |
| 15 | In a mild voice he had just asked the porter to come up , with some story about a tap dripping in the kitchen . |
| 16 | He had just developed the ‘ mural fountain ’ concept and stuck the first one on the wall by the entrance to his mansion in Grange Road . |
| 17 | To hear Joicey speak , it was as though he had just left the Prince 's side , and that the 1745 Rebellion had ended the previous day . |
| 18 | He had just left the Council at which the new decrees had been pronounced . |
| 19 | He had just persuaded the Operative Builders Union to restructure itself as the Grand National Guild of Builders . |
| 20 | But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven . |
| 21 | And last night his widow Millie , also 55 , said he had just celebrated the birth of first grandson Jonathon . |
| 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 | He had just won the competitive Cambridgeshire Handicap for the second time in three years . |
| 24 | He had just won the Cannes Palme d'Or for Mission , and was looking for a new challenge . |