Example sentences of "that [pron] had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 2 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |
| 3 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 4 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 5 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 6 | A roar of falling water as a door opened and closed indicated that someone had just emerged from the lavatory . |
| 7 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 8 | I could tell by her voice that she had just said something which she believed , and I was surprised , because I had somehow thought her too clever really to believe anything . |
| 9 | Without giving her name , she supplied them with Veronica 's address , and the information that she had just seen two men acting suspiciously in the garden . |
| 10 | Frau Gess telephoned very early in the morning to say that she had just called the doctor . |
| 11 | ‘ Little did she know that she had just landed one of the world 's greatest exponents of ‘ leap before you look ’ as a buyer , or she 'd probably have persuaded you to buy London Bridge and a stake in a Peruvian gold-mine at the same time . ’ |
| 12 | My mum came in at about 07.15 , holding out my black suit and a white shirt that she had just ironed . |
| 13 | Some hours after the alleged attack , Sharon McLean ran out of the Peace Gardens in Holt Street , near Wrexham police station , and pretended that she had just discovered the body , the jury was told . |
| 14 | But it is easy to see that , for example , a young mother who had recently been left by her husband , and gone back to a ( very good ) job , would pile up several different low scores , all linked to the fact that she had just become a single parent . |
| 15 | Until , in the end , Carrie began to think she must have made it all up , that she had just dreamed all those things he had said . |
| 16 | How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily . |
| 17 | It coincided with the news that she had just signed a new one year shoe contract with the company as part of its ongoing support for British tennis . |
| 18 | She knew what he was looking at — the pile of birthday cards on the kitchen table , and the letter that she had just started to rip open when he had first thumped on her door . |
| 19 | Then she looked behind her and saw a carriage coming up the same hill that she had just climbed , with a man leading the horse . |
| 20 | His most touching moment came after Dreamflight a couple of years ago when he was asked to rush to the bedside of a leukaemia victim who wanted to see the photos of the trip that she had just enjoyed so much . |
| 21 | ‘ No ! ’ the Doctor said , and at the same time Bernice was trying to remember exactly when she had had the conversation that she had just remembered so clearly . |
| 22 | She arrived one day in the clinic in the peak of health and triumphantly announced that she had just got married and was setting out to live in Palm Springs with her husband . |
| 23 | When Leo made some small movement , she was suddenly brought back to the present and became mortifyingly aware that she had just emptied her heart to a virtual stranger . |
| 24 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 25 | I thought when I saw the pair of you coming that you had just raced through everything , ’ Moran laughed . |
| 26 | There , when our eyes had adjusted to the gloom , we found the world of the river that we had just left . |
| 27 | All went so well after that that there had just had to be one monumental disaster waiting to happen , Leith later realised . |
| 28 | She realised that they had just joined the main motorway heading north-west out of London . |
| 29 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 30 | A great many crocodile tears were shed , for , since Unionists had such an elevated view of the principle of leadership , they were unable to accept that they had just driven their own leader from office . |