Example sentences of "she had just come " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had just come in , having staggered round with the dogs , and she and they were covered with ‘ sweethearts ’ as the locals accurately called burrs — hard to get rid of . |
| 2 | She had just come from London and she told us all about the great spirit of British resistance to the Nazi air attacks . |
| 3 | It was Dinah , with her arms full of packages ; she had just come out of a cab . |
| 4 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 5 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 6 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 7 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 8 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 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 | Pleasingly , however , though to energise her heart into a few racing beats , Moira Russell came out almost immediately and , holding the door she had just come through open , smiled and said , ‘ Mr Massingham will see you now . ’ |