Example sentences of "[pron] had just [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture she had just seen was engraved in her mind like a photograph , and even such a short glimpse of the two lovers had left her in no doubt about their identity . |
| 2 | To be near someone who had just killed was painful , agonising if the killer had enjoyed the killing . |
| 3 | For what we had just created was not a life but a death , and one that was to take far less than nine months to gestate . |
| 4 | Downstairs the party they had just left was rocking the building . |
| 5 | They had just ceased being lovers with no explanation or recriminations from either side being voiced . |
| 6 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 7 | What he had just done was sentence her to another day of hell . |
| 8 | He dozed but woke with a start , dreaming that the Hell-hounds he had just visited were snuffling at the door , but it was only Ranulf dragging a stool across the dusty rushes . |
| 9 | He had just missed being elected a member of this Academy by a single vote . |
| 10 | When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 11 | A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr Sasaki had been walking was dead ; Dr Sasaki 's patient whom he had just left was also dead . |
| 12 | The sink he had just cleaned was stained badly . |
| 13 | This dismemberment of the kingdom he had just won is indicative of the underlying weakness of Balliol 's position . |