Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a conference which keeps very much in mind the symbolic advice offered in that pamphlet , to which I alluded just now , the one which tells you how to lay out election leaflets . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Fortunately there proved to be a hidden foothold right at the base , which I hit just before dropping into space . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Gravel spurted from the heels of her boots as she crawled furiously up the cliff down which she had just slid . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Laura had agreed while casting a wry glance up at the roof , on which she had just spent many thousands of pounds . |
| 12 | Rachel swung round indignantly from the filing cabinet which she had just unlocked ready to take out the records for that morning 's surgery . |
| 13 | The mirror was veined with gold and misted with the scented steam of the bath from which she 'd just emerged . |
| 14 | This episode put me off water for years , the platform had seemed almost as high as the Blackpool Tower which we had just visited . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Dhani gestured to the door through which they had just come and said , ‘ That door then ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | The Stones resigned from the Football League , which they joined just three years ago , unable to fulfil their fixtures . |
| 20 | As an example , he opened a case of red mullet — the fashionable restaurant fish of the moment — which he had just bought . |
| 21 | He produced the unpublished manuscript of a book he has written about his experiment , which he had just had translated into English . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | Dad was not prepared to stand any more and got out of the chair into which he had just flopped . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In 1944 her son , Dr Istvan Csicsery-Rónay , prevailed on the Soviet commander to return the contents , with which he had just made off . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He nodded in the direction of the medieval arch through which he had just driven . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |