Example sentences of "i had just [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
| 2 | Charles Archer says , ‘ I had just been manning my gun and had sat down when we took the hit . |
| 3 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 4 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 5 | I had just been reading in the Daily Minute about the string of beatings and manslaughters in Rosalind Court : the night before last a Jap computer expert and a German dentist had been found in a parking lot with their faces stomped off . |
| 6 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 7 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 8 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 9 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 10 | I was very tired after the long flight from London to Sydney and on the television show someone attacked what I had just been saying . |
| 11 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 12 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |