Example sentences of "had just [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was kneeling down and you had just fallen on the floor . |
| 2 | And she had just turned on the TV , hoping for a late news-programme , when she heard the light knock on her bedroom door . |
| 3 | He said work had just begun on the Rockwell site where landscaping and planting should encourage wildlife and provide a pleasant outlook for people living on the nearby new housing estate . |
| 4 | The auctioneer , Harry Pickering , came into the room and announced he had just heard on the wireless that the King had died . |
| 5 | Glancing round , I saw I had just passed on the roadside a farm cottage — from which a young woman in an apron , her attention no doubt aroused by the horn , had come running . |
| 6 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 7 | The subject was a book I had just published on the history of the world over the past 60 years . |
| 8 | He turned to look at Denholm who had just arrived on the bridge . |
| 9 | Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it . |
| 10 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 11 | Andrea Godfrey , 25 , who comes from Darlington and works for a London-based advertising agency , said : ‘ I had just got on the train when I heard this tremendous bang . |