Example sentences of "he [verb] just [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer that he gave my hon. Friend the Member for Dover ( Mr. Shaw ) and the answer that he has just given have comprehensively shot a number of foxes , but one is still up and running . |
| 2 | Does the Minister understand that what he has just said underlines the public 's high regard for search and rescue services provided by the Royal Air Force , particularly in a constituency such as mine , where RAF Leuchars is situated ? |
| 3 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that the lion 's share of the contracts that he has just announced has been placed with defence factories in the north-west of England , including Lancashire . |
| 4 | Perhaps he has just waited to see what was emerging and then stepped in quickly to take the initiative and carry forward the proposal which he has sensed is about to emerge . |
| 5 | But he was sickened by Ayrton Senna 's attack on Alain Prost , the French driver he has just signed to drive for him next season . |
| 6 | There is the nineteenth- century villa , perched on a cliff above Monte Carlo which he has just finished restoring . |
| 7 | Thaw says the new Morse series he has just finished filming will be his last apart from a few specials . |
| 8 | He has just offered to give me a good rogering . |
| 9 | The two notes referring to James Island suggest that he has just started to identify different species by their specific island localities . |
| 10 | When we decided to treat Rob to a make-over , he 'd just decided to get rid of his curly bob and wanted something sleeker — fabulous timing on our part , do n't you think ! |
| 11 | He 'd just stopped going back for more . |
| 12 | ‘ So , by the time he had made one broom the floor of the hut was covered in bits of twigs , and he had to use the broom he 'd just made to sweep the floor of his hut clean before he could start making the next broom . |
| 13 | What he 'd just said reminded her of that business last night with the tape . |
| 14 | ‘ And when I was born , he 'd just finished reading Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean . |
| 15 | He 'd just finished helping with the dishes when he decided it was time for high-jinks in the sink . |
| 16 | Joe appeared , looking as if he 'd just finished knocking the Army into shape , and the Navy as well . |
| 17 | So he turned round the second he did , and made it look as though he was waiting for the woman he 'd just tried to kill — when they were walking along together … |
| 18 | In the end , he 'd just had to see . |
| 19 | He poured it from a Victorian coffee pot waiting on a hotplate and launched into a description of a case he 'd just won punctuated by blasts of laughter and big gestures . |
| 20 | And I ha I was n't very familiar with Nottingham , then , but I went and erm we crossed this park , and it was at a big house , there , tailors were always in rather out of the way places , and er he 'd just got fixed up . |
| 21 | The shops he had just examined stretched all the way back to the churchyard wall and their rear windows , set grimly amongst the headstones and mausoleums , had to be checked too . |
| 22 | But the face of the new usherette he had just engaged to replace her rapped his conscience like a dentist 's probe on a decayed tooth . |
| 23 | Anyway , Benguiat made up to him and gave him a big kiss and then the next day things got bad again because Parkinson was going to in room number two above this floor to sort out his slides and Benguiat had been in there and evidently he had just decided to tuck his shirt in and loosen his trousers and while he was tucking his shirt in Parkinson came in and says aha , caught you with your pants down , and Benguiat storms out of the room . |
| 24 | Of course , the irony of what he had just said escaped him , but it caused Shiona to smile a bitter inner smile . |
| 25 | What he had just said hit her like a douche of cold water , and instantly Leith , while wanting to hammer the living daylights out of him , — although still forgetful of her tenuous job position — was otherwise working on full brain power . |
| 26 | The news he had just imparted had had the effect he had expected . |
| 27 | Why did this man he had just begun to believe had no interest in him have to have chosen that book among the dozens of others ? |
| 28 | When we said we could not recall the SoS intervening to revise county estimates of population growth downwards ( although he had just intervened to revise Gwynedd 's upwards ) we were told that of course Mr Hunt shares the counties ' desire for growth and expansion . |
| 29 | The man he had just killed had been with him the night he died . |
| 30 | He had not found a replacement for Lady Cross , he had just had to pay more than £40,000 in back rent and new lease arrangements and the business was not doing well . |