Example sentences of "had just [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the unexpected shots that would provide the spice to the story — like the ones she had just made of the little midinette enthusing as she saw the dress she 'd sweated blood for , if not created , come down the catwalk to the roar of applause . |
| 2 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 3 | ‘ The priapic practitioner , ’ said Lydia , who had just thought of this appellation . |
| 4 | One parent was told by a consultant , ‘ We all have to go sometime , ’ after her 16-year-old son had just died of leukaemia . |
| 5 | One day when we were vacationing in Santa Fe in 1943 my daughter , Jennifer , who was then 3 , asked me why she could not see the picture I had just taken of her . |
| 6 | That was when Britain 's junior service , The Royal Airforce , which had just come of age — it was formed in 1918 — had what was arguably its finest hour . |
| 7 | They had just partaken of ‘ bile beer ’ , as brewed and purveyed by Matt ‘ the tube ’ Crowley . |