Example sentences of "he had just [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , he had just appointed a new Cabinet and he insisted that the would not leave until it had been formally approved by the Majles , or parliament , as the constitution demanded . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One ! |
| 4 | He had just done a smear test on her . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Miller next wrote on 15 February 1757 reporting that he had just received a letter from Bartram , written at the beginning of November , with the ‘ disagreeable account that neither of my letters , wrote last summer ’ had arrived and thus some of his important queries had not been considered . |
| 7 | He had just built a house at Beverly for Sir Charles Hotham the year before , and Ebberston was a convenient following job . |
| 8 | He had a serious expression on his face and there were no signs that he had just escaped a raging inferno . |
| 9 | Considering that he had just made a pointless journey of several thousand miles , the young man seemed remarkably equable and spent almost the entire journey sitting cross-legged , spooning purple yoghurt into his mouth from an enormous jar and reading a novel by Thomas Mann . |
| 10 | He had just made a pilot for what was hoped to be a series called Beyond Our Ken — although the Ken in the title was not he but one of the most respected performers on radio , Kenneth Horne . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 12 | At the time of his death he had just completed a second , much fuller edition , to be published in 1990 . |
| 13 | When I complained to one of the newspaper 's senior editors , he told me he had just rejected an article highly critical of me and ray position . |
| 14 | So Sarazen took on a young caddie , who , it transpired , seemed to do all the things that even the caddies of today would not dream of doing , like pulling the clubs without consultation with Sarazen , and then , if the club did not work , telling Sarazen he had just hit a bad shot — it was not his club selection at fault . |
| 15 | He had just undergone a heart triple bypass . |
| 16 | He felt exhausted , as though he had just run a marathon . |
| 17 | The last time we met he had just bought a new boat , having taken up sailing in his spare time ( but he has n't much of that ) . |
| 18 | When one of Ken 's friends told her he had just bought a new television set — a 17-inch console — she commented : ‘ Seventeen inches ? |
| 19 | He felt weak and shaking , as though he had just had a huge shock . |
| 20 | He had just delivered an impassioned speech to win friends and financial support for WWF and I was near enough and lucky enough to be introduced to him . |
| 21 | He had just released a record called Passages , made with Ravi Shankar . |
| 22 | And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ . |
| 23 | He had just taken a call when Maggie arrived to eat . |
| 24 | At the time of his stroke , he had just finished a major biography , which had received critical acclaim , and he was researching for his next book . |
| 25 | He had just won a battle with one of the local earls to whom he wished to teach some manners , although the reason for the fight is unclear ; but the Vikings never needed much of an excuse to fight . |