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Example sentences of "he have just [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	He has just seen a prospectus in which the Government is offering for sale , shares in British Rail .
2	He has just completed a year with the Praetorian Guard . ’
3	A keen sailor , he has just completed a course for yacht master offshore .
4	Barney sniggered then continued , ‘ Selwyn Hopkins told me he has just bought a motorbike .
5	" I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? "
6	He 'd just attended a pottery class at the Guild Hall in Gloucester and as usual , went to get the bus home .
7	He was a red-faced man with a pitted complexion who always looked exhausted , as if he 'd just completed a marathon .
8	‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she forced herself to speak slowly and calmly , refusing to let him know he 'd just lit a tinder within her , ‘ it may have escaped your notice that you were not the only member of the cast — come to that , you were n't the only male , either .
9	And he 'd just made a film and , we were watching something
10	Unless he 'd just bought a bed .
11	His tone was perfectly reasonable , affable even , so why did she feel as though he 'd just issued a command ?
12	It 's as if he 'd just had a snort of it .
13	If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different .
14	He 'd just had a stroke
15	The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’
16	He 'd just had a letter from Joan telling him she was pregnant and had already chosen the name Jasmine if the child was a girl .
17	So I went and saw a building contractor , friend of me Dads and er he welcomed me with open arms , he 'd just got a contract for building council houses down Dunson Street at Netherfield .
18	I shone my torch at him and he made a face like he had just chewed a lemon : ‘ I 'm going to have to pull from higher up — I guess it 's the knot . ’
19	In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One !
20	He had just done a smear test on her .
21	Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford .
22	Miller next wrote on 15 February 1757 reporting that he had just received a letter from Bartram , written at the beginning of November , with the ‘ disagreeable account that neither of my letters , wrote last summer ’ had arrived and thus some of his important queries had not been considered .
23	He had just built a house at Beverly for Sir Charles Hotham the year before , and Ebberston was a convenient following job .
24	He had just made a pilot for what was hoped to be a series called Beyond Our Ken — although the Ken in the title was not he but one of the most respected performers on radio , Kenneth Horne .
25	‘ If he had just painted a cushion instead ! ’ sighed one viewer , as it was bought in at $140,000 ( £80,459 ) ( est. $25–275,000 ) .
26	At the time of his death he had just completed a second , much fuller edition , to be published in 1990 .
27	He had just undergone a heart triple bypass .
28	He felt exhausted , as though he had just run a marathon .
29	He had just released a record called Passages , made with Ravi Shankar .
30	And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ .