Example sentences of "it had just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 2 | But hardly had General von Gallwitz arrived at Verdun before he was forcibly impressed by the potency of the French artillery ; it had just blown to pieces one of his divisional commanders in his car . |
| 3 | It had just gone six thirty . |
| 4 | Then we went to see what had happened to the rope round the tree and there was n't anything left , it had just gone . |
| 5 | It had just gone four that afternoon when she had her answer . |
| 6 | dressing gown and it had just gone straight up and the flame |
| 7 | It had just become a costly , and addictive , habit . |
| 8 | We had never consciously allocated days to each other ; it had just turned out that we had grabbed them and put our stamp on them . |
| 9 | Islington could have saved its council and charge payers a great deal of money if it had just asked the advice of a local geography teacher and been told that it is better to go to France to learn French . |
| 10 | In either case , a court which revokes the order following a breach will be empowered to sentence the offender as if it had just convicted him of the original offence . |
| 11 | It had just leaped out ! |
| 12 | The specimen shown has both its original valves preserved , and looks today much as it did when it had just died . |
| 13 | Probably , she concluded , it had just washed itself along on a tide of alcohol and that uneasy mixture of salaciousness and sanctimoniousness which characterises these melancholy occasions . |
| 14 | In accepting Murav'ev 's proposals the regime made plain that , although it had just committed itself firmly to the emancipation of the serfs ( in the Nazimov Rescript ) , it was not yet prepared to adopt the principle of decentralization or to move towards provincial self-government . |
| 15 | ’ It had just picked up the muzak . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her . |
| 17 | ‘ Come early and leave early , ’ coaxed Meredith , and as though it had just occurred to him wondered aloud whether it would be a good idea to include young Harbour . |
| 18 | Smoke was now pouring thickly from the doorway and it had just occurred to Rocky that no enemy personnel had as yet put in an appearance , when Larsen came stumbling out , eyes streaming , one arm hugging his daughter protectively , shotgun dangling from his free hand . |
| 19 | starting a little brown smoulder mark it were like that all the through the electric blanket of course all the through the the sheets all through the sheets and blankets and it had just coming through the top counterpane we used have a |
| 20 | Thirty minutes since Dominic had gone inside that room … time enough for a readjustment of ideas , time enough to let resentment flood back to the place it had just left . |
| 21 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 22 | In fact , it had just added to his burdens . |
| 23 | It had just taken him by surprise , her wanting to put flowers in an empty house . |
| 24 | That little bottle with the plastic spoon attached , it had just taken him back about five years . |
| 25 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 26 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 27 | When the ball finally reached him , the normally placid boy bared his teeth and , whirling the bat round his head , whacked the offending object back up to where it had just come from . |
| 28 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 29 | At once I can see Annexe B , Summerchild 's list of possible members of the Unit , as clearly as if it had just come out of the porridge oats box . |
| 30 | It had just happened . |