Example sentences of "that he had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science said that he was not going to tell teachers how to teach in primary schools or pre-empt the outcome of the inquiry that he had just announced . |
| 2 | He had a serious expression on his face and there were no signs that he had just escaped a raging inferno . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Exec Director gave the DDA a number that he had just received from his bureau chief in London . |
| 5 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |
| 6 | He parked the machine and announced to a stunned crowd that he had just retired . |
| 7 | He realized that he had just murmured something under his breath . |
| 8 | In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One ! |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Jones had already used a variety of materials , one of which was palladium , and was preparing to obtain the final proof with his detector that he had just spent two years building . |
| 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 | Given Brainerd 's background in the publishing industry , mainly newspapers , and the fact that he had just left Atex it is hardly surprising that the program was designed around the traditional ‘ cut and paste ’ working methods . |
| 14 | Tommaso said , quickly , that he could not stay , that he had just had something to drink , anyway , in town . |
| 15 | He found it strange that he had just buried Tosspot who used to clean the platters and tankards in this very tavern . |
| 16 | The simplest explanation was that he had just got tired of Jacqui . |
| 17 | At the same time , Coleridge 's mother in-law , Mrs Fricker , also seemed on the point of death at the house in Oxford Street , Kingsdown , that he had just found for Sara and himself on the north side of the city . |