Example sentences of "[vb past] just finished " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd just finished editing The Dairy Book of Home Management , which eventually sold 1.5m copies , and I was living in the Kings Road . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I see , ’ said April , laying aside the sock she 'd just finished darning . |
| 3 | I 'd just finished it when it was time to get off . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd just finished treatment for a drug problem and Paul was getting over valium addiction . |
| 5 | She 'd just finished a seven-day sentence in Holloway prison . |
| 6 | Joe appeared , looking as if he 'd just finished knocking the Army into shape , and the Navy as well . |
| 7 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |
| 8 | and I 'd just finished training as a nurse and I thought I was really cool and calm and I would of reported it , but I did n't |
| 9 | On that particular day I I was coming home from work and it were quarter to nine , I 'd just finished work . |
| 10 | By 10.30pm the contractions were getting even stronger and I was beginning to feel like I 'd just finished running a marathon . |
| 11 | He 'd just finished helping with the dishes when he decided it was time for high-jinks in the sink . |
| 12 | I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside . |
| 13 | ‘ And when I was born , he 'd just finished reading Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean . |
| 14 | We 'd just finished decorating the room . |
| 15 | I ca n't think in the art , in the art thing cos I like to I 'd just finished my coffee as well and |
| 16 | Squiffy everywhere and erm that night the evening activity was tobogganing and we 'd just finished all this wine . |
| 17 | The patrol commander had just finished briefing the police on the situation when one of the patrol shouted , ‘ There 's someone in the bank . ’ |
| 18 | I had just finished building a 16-track studio in my house and asked him to come and have a go on that equipment that even the very big studios did n't have . |
| 19 | Fifty miles north , Sarah Morgan had just finished serving a lunch that no one had done more than pick at . |
| 20 | Evidently a class had just finished and the place was boiling with ponies , small children , pink-faced with exertion in oversized helmets covered with bright silks , parents urging them to hurry up and get in cars , and teenage girls bulging out of light jodhpurs organizing the whole . |
| 21 | Cultural standards in the court have risen since George III remarked to Edward Gibbon , when the latter had just finished his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ‘ Another big fat book ! |
| 22 | We had just finished the Card Trio in Act 3 with Leontyne and the two other gipsy girls in splendid voice , while Karajan 's accompaniment had been an education in itself . |
| 23 | Kylie had just finished primary school and along with Dannii , got the chance to audition for a part in The Sullivans , a long-running soap set in World War II . |
| 24 | Finally , a protest from a woman who says she had just finished Helen Bullock 's ‘ oh-so-true ’ article when her husband came in and said : ’ ‘ There seems to be a bit of toast on the floor in the other room ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Rex Reed , a writer for the New York Times saw Nicholson when he had just finished making On A Clear Day and thought that Jack was starting to make establishment noises , cleaning up his image , shaving his stubble and ditching the sandals and hippie clothes . |
| 27 | I had just finished serving a glass to a gentleman when a voice behind me said : ‘ Ah , Stevens , you 're interested in fish , you say . ’ |
| 28 | Finally , Mrs Popple decided to throw a dinner-plate — they had just finished eating — and Albert Popple stormed out of the house . |
| 29 | At the time of his stroke , he had just finished a major biography , which had received critical acclaim , and he was researching for his next book . |
| 30 | The odour of fried bacon surrounded him , and a dirty plate and cutlery , pushed to the corner of the table , showed that Albert had just finished his evening meal . |