Example sentences of "had just [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Director Tony Smith had just completed the prize-winning TV series Tutti Frutti , but these were to be some of his first commercials . |
| 2 | She realised that they had just joined the main motorway heading north-west out of London . |
| 3 | She had just poured the boiling water on the tea and was standing waiting for it to brew when she heard Alex 's footsteps on the stairs and , turning , she saw his tall figure blocking the kitchen door . |
| 4 | A local builder , probably the same man who had just built the beautiful house of Newton Ferrers , created this simple masterpiece in the local sea-grey basaltic stone , mixed with silvery granite from the moor up over the hill to the north . |
| 5 | She had just gained the small flat via the proceeds of the compensation for the other . |
| 6 | Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance . |
| 7 | European Minister Tristan Garel-Jones embraced Mr Ryder as though his team had just scored the winning goal in a Wembley Cup Final . |
| 8 | Sixteen-year-old Sara Freeman liked to spend Saturday afternoon shopping and had just discovered the new shop in Fulham Road . |
| 9 | GAVIN HASTINGS had just kicked the living daylights out of Wales . |
| 10 | He had just heard the full story from Nigel Cramer in his office atop the Home Office building . |
| 11 | The British visitor had just heard the exact same overview from the hospital 's top administrator . |
| 12 | He had just heard the banqueting hall cannons fire , which must mean that the sepoys were attempting an attack from the flank ; he hoped that their attack had not succeeded because he and his men had more than they could cope with already . |
| 13 | The new Paradise Corporation commercial had just aired the previous night . |
| 14 | He had just persuaded the Operative Builders Union to restructure itself as the Grand National Guild of Builders . |
| 15 | I could n't believe it when I saw it cos we had just cemented the ill-fated Admiral deal . |
| 16 | ‘ I had just left the managing director at a site meeting in Middlesex at around 6.30 one evening when the carphone rang . |
| 17 | At that stage Canterbury had just equalled the old defence record of 25 , set by Auckland in 1960–63 . |
| 18 | The expense would all go for nothing now because the Emperor had just rewritten the social calendar . |
| 19 | At this time , we had just put the finishing touches to some new software , designed specifically to serve the needs of small to medium sized hotels , which interfaces with any reasonably up to date PABX based telephone system , and IBM compatible computer equipment . |
| 20 | The first function to take place in the new headquarters of cricket was a reception for the bishop of London , who had just consecrated the adjacent St John 's Wood church . |
| 21 | For one brief moment , it seemed as if there might be a conventional route to fame , through the young director Roman Polanski who had just entered the fast new Hollywood crowd of which Nicholson was a member , as was his friend Robert Evans , who had been recently appointed vice president of Paramount and in charge of all new production projects . |
| 22 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 23 | Dee had just opened the two-litre engine up a bit on a dual carriageway and realized how quick the car was . |
| 24 | In 1847 Richard Sheepshanks wrote of John Couch Adams , a Cambridge mathematician who had just predicted the new planet Neptune : ‘ I think there is a hope that Mr Adams will continue his astronomical career . |
| 25 | The small Irishman had just sprinkled the wooden floor with water to keep down the dust and was briskly sweeping the warped boards with a long-bristled broom when Patrick arrived . |
| 26 | He had just won the competitive Cambridgeshire Handicap for the second time in three years . |
| 27 | As late as 1792 , Sir Robert Ainslie , Murray 's successor , complained that by not being called on to mediate in the peace negotiations which had just produced the Russo-Turkish treaty of Jassy he had lost the opportunity to make about £30,000 in presents from both sides , though this was probably a great exaggeration . |