Example sentences of "he [vb past] just [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 2 | In the first attack , he 'd just popped into a shop in the Lake District — and returned to find the panels of his £52,000 BMW 750i all kicked in . |
| 3 | I think you said he 'd just moved into the area recently . |
| 4 | In deck shoes , casual close-fitting denim Bermudas , and black polo-shirt , his hair tousled as if he 'd just jumped off a boat , he looked very large and male and intimidating . |
| 5 | His immense desire to have something outside himself that he could look up to and worship expressed itself not merely in that idealistic phase that he 'd just gone through , but in his attitude towards mathematical truth . |
| 6 | He 'd just spoken to Detective Inspector Balfour in his hole on the Foulness road , but there was n't much news on that front . |
| 7 | I do n't suppose old Pope Leo the Tenth sat around gazing at the latest thing he 'd just commissioned from Michelangelo , for instance . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , Karen , ’ he smiled at her as if she were an acquaintance he 'd just spotted in a crowd . |
| 9 | Exercising his body slowly and with care in the practice court , Lucien was aware that , despite the cross words he 'd just had with Azmaveth , he was actually content in his new surroundings . |
| 10 | He 'd just got off the train . |
| 11 | He 'd as good as admitted he 'd gone off her sexually by saying he preferred just resting in her , motionless . |
| 12 | He had just heard about Baldric and his party leaving , and was speaking entirely in the vocative . |
| 13 | The auctioneer , Harry Pickering , came into the room and announced he had just heard on the wireless that the King had died . |
| 14 | He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin . |
| 15 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 16 | When he took the ale into the warm farmhouse living room and saw everyone standing around the crackling log fire with food and drinks in their hands , he thought again of what he had just seen through the kitchen window . |
| 17 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 18 | The Exec Director gave the DDA a number that he had just received from his bureau chief in London . |
| 19 | He had just ploughed through seven Seahawks . |
| 20 | He had just turned from the window , intent on leaving , when the woman walked back into the room . |
| 21 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
| 22 | But he had n't , of course ; he had just pleaded with her to stay with him , which was a world away from a total commitment . |
| 23 | He found it difficult to reconcile the opulence he had just witnessed with the poverty of some of the surrounding districts . |
| 24 | In 386 Ambrose moved relics he had just discovered in a Milan suburb to one of the new churches he had built to ring the growing city with prestigious sanctuaries ; it was a well thought out act . |
| 25 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 26 | He had just settled in his seat for the 10-hour journey from the Caribbean , when the captain called for a doctor . |
| 27 | He had just paid for the whisky when the door blew open , and a huge Irishman staggered into the establishment . |
| 28 | He had just returned to his £12,000-a-year job after five months off with depression , the London tribunal heard . |
| 29 | He had just returned to his Laurel Road home from school yesterday afternoon when the tragedy happened . |
| 30 | He had just returned after a 3-day affair with another woman which had brought on the crisis . |