Example sentences of "he had just [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | It deadened his days and brought him upright in the night , running with sweat and fear , his arms held out clutching the gun with which he had just shot his mother . |
| 2 | He had just lost his wife ; his children were now grown up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had just moved his Queen and two grand masters , providing a commentary for spectators , declared that Byrne had a won game . |
| 5 | Elwood lived with his parents on Ross Street West , and I remember going to his house one day in late June when he had just completed his high school training to offer him a job at CHAB . |
| 6 | He had just completed his preparations — dressed to kill would have been an apt description of his appearance — when suddenly he froze , head cocked in a listening attitude . |
| 7 | But then the other man seemed to regain control of himself , for the next moment he was shinning up the rope as though he had just realised his life depended on it — quite literally ! |
| 8 | Why did he feel as though he had just run his sword through the heart of something small and desperately struggling for survival ? |
| 9 | He had just nodded his head , and then returned to the talk about the social evening , and how difficult it was to be safe with prawns , and he had wanted to know if Dan and his lady would be coming to the Service 's New Year 's Eve party . |
| 10 | But he had just slid his key into the lock , simply strolled in and shattered their precious time . |
| 11 | He was so calm — as though he had just parked his car outside . |
| 12 | If you read my brief interview with Yngwie , back in April , you will recall that he had just released his tenth album ‘ Fire and Ice ’ and was touring the world to promote it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had just caught his first glimpse of Thorsbury Manor . |
| 15 | His architectural predilections were evident at the Royal Academy in 1850 , with compositions called Palladiana and the Works of Vignola and , at the time of his appointment as an assessor , he had just started his best known work , the Italianate Clothworkers ' Hall in the City of London ( 1856–60 ) . |
| 16 | Younger than Fräulein , he had just finished his first year at university , but was already in trouble . |