Example sentences of "had just [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England had just lost to Spain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 4 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 5 | He and his wife had just gone to bed . |
| 6 | On another occasion , Mr Reynolds had just gone to bed when he had the feeling that there was a fire on the site . |
| 7 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 8 | She had just gone to pieces and she had caused it all herself . |
| 9 | In fact on the day they signed the contracts with Wonderland for the King 's Hall they had just gone to No 1 in the charts with their new album . |
| 10 | But hardly had General von Gallwitz arrived at Verdun before he was forcibly impressed by the potency of the French artillery ; it had just blown to pieces one of his divisional commanders in his car . |
| 11 | The Council had just agreed to rehouse women who stayed there , and had promised larger , more permanent premises for the Refuge itself . |
| 12 | Smoke was now pouring thickly from the doorway and it had just occurred to Rocky that no enemy personnel had as yet put in an appearance , when Larsen came stumbling out , eyes streaming , one arm hugging his daughter protectively , shotgun dangling from his free hand . |
| 13 | He scored a further success with Colonel Nathaniel Montgomery Moore who , on the visit which he , his wife and Miss D'Arcy had just taken to Dumfries , had encountered none other than Major General Gerard Lake , ‘ who told me about your great gallantry at Guelder — Gueld — ‘ |
| 14 | It was n't only the words she had just used to Marguerite . |
| 15 | One major bank robbery had just come to trial . |
| 16 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 17 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 18 | Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten . |
| 19 | Michael Perrin , a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place . |
| 20 | Kermit Weeks and Linda Meyers had just returned to Florida from France where Kermit had flown the Week 's Solution ( an aerobatic type which he had designed ) in a competition . |
| 21 | Craig , who joined the Royal Corps of Transport 18 months ago after leaving his job as a postman , had just returned to Northern Ireland after attending a driving course in England . |
| 22 | Never in her entire life had she spoken to anyone the way she had just spoken to Nathan Bryce . |