Example sentences of "had just come [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The street lights had just come on , a little premature , and where they stood close to any of the orphan-like trees their electric brightness was captured in the mesh of dusty leaves , giving the street an elegance it had otherwise long since lost . |
| 2 | A Dessie Edgar corner was neatly side-footed home in 79 minutes by Victor Welch who had just come on as a sub . |
| 3 | and , anyway she was poorly for days and this Rita had just come on , poorly for days |
| 4 | From there it was possible to get into the Cathedral only through a large , very heavy door directly opposite the one they had just come through . |
| 5 | He said he was a reporter and he told me of the death of the King , the news had just come through . |
| 6 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 7 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 8 | Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time . |
| 9 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 10 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 11 | At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia . |
| 12 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 13 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 14 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 15 | Burden had just come in , damp and disgruntled , when Wexford erupted bull-like from the lift . |
| 16 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His stage set , along with the thumping music , flashing lights , and dry-ice clouds that go with it , had just come in from Scotland , and was due to head south as soon as we television camp-followers had done our reports in front of it . |
| 19 | ‘ I wonder if it 's that Jack the Ripper , ’ she laughed , and followed Dad out to the shed , leaving me with Liza who had just come in . |
| 20 | He sent the clerk hurrying into the back room to get a dark grey suit which had just come in and then said : ‘ Going to New York ? |
| 21 | I remember , it was when flared trousers had just come in — remember when you had straight trousers and you wanted to make them into flares you sewed in a triangle of material ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He turned and the girl who had just come in let out a little scream . |
| 24 | He turned to John Scales who had just come in . |
| 25 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 26 | Fazal had just come in and they were talking . |
| 27 | The request had just come in . |
| 28 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 29 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 30 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |