Example sentences of "he had just be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in the report of ‘ a sex beast nicknamed ‘ The Acne Kid ’ ’ ( Star ) , who boasted to the victim that he had just been freed from prison and said : ‘ I 've served time for rape before ’ , speculation about this possible link was scotched quickly . |
| 2 | In a radio broadcast on 1 October 1936 , the day he was officially invested as Head of State , Franco hinted at how he envisaged the organization of the as yet non-existent state of whose equally non-existent government he had just been made leader . |
| 3 | One day a child came home from Sunday School declaring that he had just been hearing about how Moses crossed the Red Sea with tanks and Bailey bridges . |
| 4 | Ukraine appointed Rear-Adml Boris Kozhin , previously commander of the Crimean naval base , as head of all naval forces in the republic , even though he had just been sacked by Adml Igor Kasatonov , the CIS 's Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , for ‘ inflaming national strife ’ . |
| 5 | Commentary : where an offender is dealt with for a breach of a community service order , he must be sentenced ( if the order is revoked ) in a manner in which he could have been sentenced by the court which made the order , if he is in breach of a probation order , the court may sentence the offender as if he had just been convicted of the offence concerned . |
| 6 | Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first . |
| 7 | Like the three kings in the story , O went home another way , feeling that in some way he had just been warned about something . |
| 8 | Lips tight , fists clenched , eyes narrow , breath held , back straight , stomach in , chest out , shoulders back , Steven Grout stamped away from the depot he had just been fired from , away from their stupid job and those awful people . |
| 9 | He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany . |
| 10 | A TEENAGER and three of his pals died when he crashed the car he had just been given as a present . |
| 11 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 12 | Ken , who although he had just been appointed Bishop , was still a Royal Chaplain , remained beside the bed of the dying King for three days and nights , ‘ watching at proper intervals to suggest pious and proper thoughts and ejaculations on so serious an occasion ’ . |
| 13 | Over his face quivered shades of the sniggers he had just been enjoying with his mates . |
| 14 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 15 | He had sprung to his feet and thrown out his arms and cried , for he had just been doing Archimedes ' Principle at school , " Eureka ! " |
| 16 | He had a half-beard and he looked dirty , as if he had just been working with hammers and bricks and wood and chisels . |
| 17 | His superior was baffled , unsure of the validity and import of what he had just been told . |
| 18 | The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was also standing as the man behind the desk read the slip of paper he had just been handed . |
| 19 | Behind him the door of the house whose occupant he had just been interviewing had been dosed with considerable firmness . |
| 20 | ‘ Not too good , I 've heard , ’ said Greg , not adding that he had just been grilling the doctor who signed her second husband 's death certificate . |
| 21 | He had intended to leave them at the station , but the Left Luggage Office , he had just been reminded , closed at 9.30 . |
| 22 | He had just been de-mobbed from the Army , intended to go up to Oxford to work for his Doctorate in the autumn , and was looking for a house for his mother who had recently been divorced . |