Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] just [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie , in between numbers at a rock concert , talks to Laura about the young student who has just made love to her . |
| 2 | At the very end of the movie Phar Lap a newspaper reporter in Australia seeks out trainer Harry Telford , who has just received news of the horse 's tragic end . |
| 3 | ‘ We were over the moon and had a great sense of achievement — as if we 'd done something terribly clever , ’ says Susi , who has just given birth to her first baby . |
| 4 | This must strike a chord with anyone who has just taken possession of a modern house with a postage stamp for a plot of land . |
| 5 | ‘ The change in joint laxity during pregnancy is analogous to that in someone who has just had surgery on the joints and ligaments : you would n't start that person lifting heavy weights ; you would start with low intensity rehabilitative exercise ’ . |
| 6 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As my darling new mother ( whom I loved ) moved radiantly about the room introducing Derek , who had just directed Equus at the Contact Theatre , to Bryan , who was a freelance journalist specializing in film , or Karen , who was a secretary at a literary agency , to Robert , who was a designer ; as she spoke of the new Dylan album and what Riverside Studios was doing , I saw she wanted to scour that suburban stigma right off her body . |
| 10 | Mr Palmer took action after Aqib bounced one to hit the helmet of No. 11 batsman Malcolm ( who had just avoided decapitation by Wasim Akram ) . |
| 11 | He left the set that day looking for all the world like a nine-stone weakling who had just thrown sand in the face of the beach bully . |
| 12 | Before he invaded Iran in 1980 , Mr Hussein tried hard to get on with the Islamic zealots who had just seized power in Tehran . |
| 13 | There lingered perhaps an echo of grimness , and an echo of something else : an expression she had seen on the faces of men who have just loaded ship for a voyage . |