Example sentences of "had just [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had just completed work on a new two-and-three-quarter-ounce trout-rod , and had asked his brother , John , to try it out . |
| 2 | An R-1830 Twin Wasp for ‘ nostalgia ’ operator Classic Air of Switzerland had just completed tear-down during our visit . |
| 3 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 4 | How her mother had just given birth to another child , her fifth , this time a boy . |
| 5 | Later , when they lay quiet and apart once more , Maria thought about his attitude , adding it to the oddly driven way in which he had just made love to her . |
| 6 | And she had just made love to a stranger . |
| 7 | A more general indication of his interests is given by the catalogue of his library , which he drew up in 1632 , when he had just moved house to Long Acre , Covent Garden . |
| 8 | Ben , who 's fifteen , had just started work at Stars Newsagents when he was approached by the gunman . |
| 9 | Before he invaded Iran in 1980 , Mr Hussein tried hard to get on with the Islamic zealots who had just seized power in Tehran . |
| 10 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 11 | Mr Palmer took action after Aqib bounced one to hit the helmet of No. 11 batsman Malcolm ( who had just avoided decapitation by Wasim Akram ) . |
| 12 | She followed , trying to spot a public phone , and she had just caught sight of one at the corner of the building when he came out of the office , a key in his hand . |
| 13 | The small boy had just caught sight of his cousin , who went to Cranborne School . |
| 14 | Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority had just recommended approval of the sale of Pan Am 's routes out of London 's Heathrow airport to United Airlines . |
| 15 | He left the set that day looking for all the world like a nine-stone weakling who had just thrown sand in the face of the beach bully . |
| 16 | ‘ Our centre half had just taken part in an all-night ice skating event for charity . |
| 17 | ‘ Fuck off and leave you alone ! ’ echoed Quigley , as if I had just taken pi to sixteen decimal places off the top of my head . |
| 18 | Referring to the meeting which had just taken place in Dublin , Sir Patrick addressed the House of Commons thus : |
| 19 | As my darling new mother ( whom I loved ) moved radiantly about the room introducing Derek , who had just directed Equus at the Contact Theatre , to Bryan , who was a freelance journalist specializing in film , or Karen , who was a secretary at a literary agency , to Robert , who was a designer ; as she spoke of the new Dylan album and what Riverside Studios was doing , I saw she wanted to scour that suburban stigma right off her body . |
| 20 | Panel beater Gordon Reid ( 32 ) , had just set fire to rubbish in the old oil drum while clearing up at his car body repair garage at Fenton Barns . |
| 21 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 22 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 23 | We had just finished lunch at the conference and the president of NAHBO was giving out various awards . |
| 24 | The undertaker had just finished work for the day when Mr Bumble entered his shop . |
| 25 | There was the Glasgow woman with serious marriage problems , whose son had just committed suicide in prison . |
| 26 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 27 | On the other hand Leeds handed out a whopping defeat on a team who had only lost 1 of their first 9 and whose manager had just won manager of the month for September . |