Example sentences of "he have just [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lambert , limping badly , wore a French police helmet , and Dangerfield was wiping mud from his eyes : he had just fallen down . |
| 32 | ‘ He had just given up smoking , ’ she said . |
| 33 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 34 | She did not remember anyone inviting Tim , he had just tagged on to them , but she felt it was safer to take him than leave him near Durance in case he made any further blackmail attempts . |
| 35 | He had just picked up a particularly attractive ring , when a girl 's voice said , ‘ That 's not for sale . ’ |
| 36 | And I do n't want you touching anything of mine , ’ she added fiercely , wrenching out of his hand a book he had just picked up . |
| 37 | John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) . |
| 38 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 39 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 40 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 41 | He pointed to the one he had just come out of . |
| 42 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 43 | He had just remembered where he 'd heard the phrase with which Crepi had rung off . |
| 44 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 45 | He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started . |
| 46 | Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth . |
| 47 | He judged five minutes was long enough for that , a lifetime when you are five , and since he had just learned how to tell the time he watched the clock over her shoulder . |
| 48 | But , rather than feed , he had just taken away Nielson 's reputation , his genius , his worldly stature . |
| 49 | I think that erm across the road from me he 's just mucked around . |
| 50 | Well he 's just locked up the car ooh |
| 51 | ‘ He 's just popped out to buy a paper — ’ |
| 52 | He 's just popped out for supplies . |
| 53 | ‘ He 's just become more and more difficult to manage — he wanders , and he has to be kept clean … |
| 54 | He 's just ridden in from London , and his lady 's here to meet him . |
| 55 | No , he 's just gone on . |
| 56 | He 's just gone away . |
| 57 | Alex Murphy 's incredulous comment — ‘ that 's the best winger in the world he 's just gone past ’ — nicely captured the audacity of the moment . |
| 58 | He 's just gone in to see if everything 's alright at Edinburgh and of course , that 's why he 's had to report for that . |
| 59 | He 's just gone out for … but I never heard what it was , because I went . |
| 60 | Pike was standing by a wooden rack of pamphlets , including What Has Old Mother Walsh to Say to Us ? and a large , colourful one for the kiddies entitled Daddy is n't Dead , He 's Just Gone Out for a Bit . |