Example sentences of "man [pron] had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dalglish wore the demeanour of a man who had just discovered the cat had been sick in his slippers . |
| 2 | A local builder , probably the same man who had just built the beautiful house of Newton Ferrers , created this simple masterpiece in the local sea-grey basaltic stone , mixed with silvery granite from the moor up over the hill to the north . |
| 3 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 4 | Breeze turned to glance at the man who had just entered the shop , and saw that it was Roger Kenyon . |
| 5 | Certainly the Man who had just opened the door of Woil 's cage had his attention distracted by the shout . |
| 6 | On my next visit to Southampton I tried in vain for a chat with the young man who had just won a match for Hampshire and deserved to bask in a discreet amount of praise . |
| 7 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 8 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 9 | Who was this monstrous man who had just inflicted on her one of the most unpleasant encounters in her entire life ? |
| 10 | He looked like a man who had just found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd 's accountant , or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography . |
| 11 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 12 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 13 | I would have behaved in the same manner , but I would not have apologised to a man who had just given such a small sentence for the criminal act of killing two innocent victims . |
| 14 | It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station . |
| 15 | Clara could not think of any scheme in which the man she had just seen could have been described as lovely , but she instantly invented one . |
| 16 | The man she had just interviewed , a Mr Liam Groves , had not been too happy to be interviewed on Boxing Day . |
| 17 | And if she opened the door again any sign of the man she had just glimpsed , the human being behind the impenetrable barrier , would be instantly and totally erased . |
| 18 | This was a variation on the routine he would put himself through every time after a man he had just slept with had left the flat ; he would check his body for scratches , bruises and teethmarks . |
| 19 | The man he had just killed had been with him the night he died . |