Example sentences of "what she [vb past] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pondering what she had just heard , Wilson went home , wondering if Mr Browning felt the same distrust of Mrs Eckley as she did . |
| 2 | Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation . |
| 3 | The servant who passed the story on to the firefighters had been standing nearby taking in all that was being said until a glance from Meredith Putt through the partly open door sent her scuttling upstairs to complete her work , filled with apprehension by what she had just heard . |
| 4 | Rachel stared at her sister in silence , shocked by what she had just heard , not so much by the fact that Paul Mason had been married but because he was as different from David Markham as it was possible for a man to be , and none of them had even suspected what had been happening . |
| 5 | She switched on a desk lamp , and quickly scanned what she had just written , murmuring to herself . |
| 6 | She stood there until the rapturous applause died down and the peacock screen rose from the floor , hiding all behind it , then , her eyes clouded by emotional tears conjured up by the sheer beauty of what she had just witnessed , she turned blindly , colliding with a hard male body . |
| 7 | The Josephs were squabbling about whether Merlyn should have done what she had just done , whether Barbara Coleman had not truly deserved it . |
| 8 | And then it rained ; glorious , refreshing rain , washing away the awfulness of what she had just seen . |
| 9 | Even in the turmoil of his own thoughts , Gazzer found himself registering surprise at what she had just said : ‘ She knows ! ’ he thought . |
| 10 | His forehead tingled and he put his back against the door , trying to locate himself , trying to absorb what she had just said . |
| 11 | Her father looked at her and nodded , which was a sure sign that he disagreed with what she had just said . |
| 12 | For some reason she found what she had just said enormously funny , and exploded into the phone with a fruity laugh before putting down her receiver . |
| 13 | Blanche looked up for a moment to chew the implications of what she had just read when another alien sound impinged . |
| 14 | Kate stared back at him , hardly daring to believe what she 'd just heard . |
| 15 | For a moment , she was n't sure of what she 'd just said . |
| 16 | She could hardly believe what she 'd just done . |