Example sentences of "which [pron] had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The display windows of the shops had also been taken over and in some of them were displayed uniforms such as that of the Russian Legion which I had just seen . |
| 2 | As she faced out to sea then turned back to face the land through which she had just passed , her eyes were unseeing ; only the past was visible . |
| 3 | But her own internal stresses — her anxiety over Between the Acts which she had just finished , and the fear that she had lost the power to write — closed in on her as that unmitigable depression , her companion of old , took final hold . |
| 4 | A few months after the service started there was a tragedy when the young daughter of Mr. Whitehead , Headmaster of The Salisbury School ( now Chafyn Grove ) was killed as she ran behind the reversing bus from which she had just alighted . |
| 5 | Gravel spurted from the heels of her boots as she crawled furiously up the cliff down which she had just slid . |
| 6 | ‘ What have they done to you now ? ’ she had mildly enquired , looking up from a photocopy of an article on The Compulsion to Public Prayer : a study of religious neurosis in a post-Christian society which she had just received in her own post , and Charles had said , ‘ Asked us to a New Year 's Eve party . ’ |
| 7 | She was obviously in distress , raising herself on all fours , snatching the hair from her face as she looked back in terror at the plaster wall from which she had just come . |
| 8 | For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come . |
| 9 | Laura had agreed while casting a wry glance up at the roof , on which she had just spent many thousands of pounds . |
| 10 | Rachel swung round indignantly from the filing cabinet which she had just unlocked ready to take out the records for that morning 's surgery . |
| 11 | This episode put me off water for years , the platform had seemed almost as high as the Blackpool Tower which we had just visited . |
| 12 | The teacher invited us round to his cottage one evening for dinner and to talk about releasing owls into the wild , which we had just started doing around that time ( I 'll tell you more about that later ) . |
| 13 | Interesting that the offices of Yeo Davis should be very much less at the leading edge of modern design than the solicitors ' which they had just seen , McLeish thought , and murmured as much to Catherine Crane , who laughed . |
| 14 | Dhani gestured to the door through which they had just come and said , ‘ That door then ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When she started to cry they offered to help wipe her eyes and used a piece of soiled paper which they had just picked up . |
| 16 | As an example , he opened a case of red mullet — the fashionable restaurant fish of the moment — which he had just bought . |
| 17 | He produced the unpublished manuscript of a book he has written about his experiment , which he had just had translated into English . |
| 18 | The Act which he had just steered through Parliament faced Emanuel with difficult choices : should it remain fully independent and operate outside the State system , or should it be incorporated within the local provision of schooling and become a voluntary-aided school ? |
| 19 | Dad was not prepared to stand any more and got out of the chair into which he had just flopped . |
| 20 | It deadened his days and brought him upright in the night , running with sweat and fear , his arms held out clutching the gun with which he had just shot his mother . |
| 21 | In 1944 her son , Dr Istvan Csicsery-Rónay , prevailed on the Soviet commander to return the contents , with which he had just made off . |
| 22 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 23 | Later , when they lay quiet and apart once more , Maria thought about his attitude , adding it to the oddly driven way in which he had just made love to her . |
| 24 | He nodded in the direction of the medieval arch through which he had just driven . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , be quiet , do , you stupid dog ! ’ scolded the housekeeper , slapping the animal smartly on his nose so that he leapt back down off the bed on to which he had just jumped . |
| 26 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |
| 27 | Reporting on Nov. 21 on the results of his week-long tour of Eastern Europe from which he had just returned , Botha noted the establishment of consular ties with Czechoslovakia and Romania . |
| 28 | Morse held up the photograph of Theodore Kemp which he had just removed from the living room . |
| 29 | When he bent to the floor and picked up her dress and draped it anyhow over her , though making sure that her breasts , which he had just termed ‘ exquisite ’ , were covered , she knew he was very much off her too . |
| 30 | In those moments , those final moments as he took her and reached ecstasy , she had been able to believe he loved her , felt something for her ; and , though she knew he did not , she was moved , wanted to retain those precious moments which he had just given her when he had finally stripped the mask away and let her see how human he was as he merged with her and lost himself inside her . |