Example sentences of "[Wh det] had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wheeler , now moving to the rear of the plant to show off the £2m smoke-cleaning section , which had just broken down , pointed out that his company achieved destruction of at least 99.9999 per cent of all materials . |
| 2 | In the command post further back from the beach , Corporal Williams , the duty radio operator , was decoding a message which had just been received . |
| 3 | For this chance fever which had just laid me prostrate was not induced by Honegger alone but by you too . |
| 4 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 5 | In 1975 , for instance , journalists arriving in Beirut would invariably be told by the Lebanese of the halcyon days which had just ended , of the peaceful Phoenician land in which Christians and Muslims had shown the world that historically religious antagonists could live in peace . |
| 6 | Lady Elizabeth Campbell , sixteen , gentle , interested in poetry , cuddly , was discussing the matter of her marriage , which had just been broken to her at dinner by her father , Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , King James the Fourth 's Lieutenant of the Isles , chief of Clan Diarmaid ; and her teeth , which were indeed passable , were much in evidence . |
| 7 | Considering that Walter Luff will be forever associated with the modernisation of the Blackpool tramway in the Thirties , it was surprising that his previous appointment had been as Commercial Manager of the West Riding Tramways Company , which had just abandoned its trams . |
| 8 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 9 | To the crowd who assembled , the Provo Sergeant announced that anyone giving credit to members of the regiment which had just arrived did so at their own risk . |
| 10 | Then Angel vaulted back on to his pony , which had just tottered groggily to its feet , and galloped back to the stables . |
| 11 | No details of any other claims by 261 Squadron pilots are available , but their opponents are believed to have been aircraft on the 23° Gruppo C.T. , which had just returned from Libya . |
| 12 | Doug Whitney was in the air and was credited with shooting down one Bf109 which had just shot down one of the Hurricanes . |
| 13 | Struggling to survive the discouragement of another rebuff , Vincent walked on foot from the Borinage to Brussels to plead his case with the Reverend Pietersen , one of the more sympathetic members of the committee which had just sacked him . |
| 14 | The sky above the glittering slate roofs was as blue as the curious lilies which had just begun to come out under the dining-room window , trumpet flowers set like the seed-head of a dandelion but as blue as — the sky . |
| 15 | He sent the clerk hurrying into the back room to get a dark grey suit which had just come in and then said : ‘ Going to New York ? |
| 16 | During the second world war , people huddled in air raid shelters defiantly singing Oh What A Beautiful Morning from Oklahoma ! , which had just opened in the US . |
| 17 | Instead , because of a booking blunder , they were left to carry their own bags to the Paradise Court room — which had just two single beds and a table — in the middle of the night . |
| 18 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 19 | Mr Toubon 's appointment as Minister of Culture , made public just before 8pm on 30 March , was announced a few minutes later over the public address system at the Salon de Mars art fair , which had just opened — to widespread applause . |
| 20 | Perhaps , like Meredith Jones , Lloyd 's natural interest and generosity were spurred on both by the obvious scarcity of opportunity for the children in that industrial beehive and by the war which had just broken out . |
| 21 | This was the journal Jewry Ueber Alles which had just been published in February 1920 , and had altered its name to The Hidden Hand in September 1920 and to the British Guardian in May 1924 . |
| 22 | She was drawing a house , a house which had just four windows , one chimney and one door , while Nanny , full of nursery lunch , dozed by the fire . |
| 23 | It smelt of death and decay , lying green and treacherous like a contented animal which had just been fed , but one which was also ready for a second helping . |
| 24 | And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored outside the bar , I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea , edge to edge , with a perfect and unmarked closeness , in one levelled floor half brown , half blue under the enormous dome of the sky ( 3 ) . |
| 25 | And had perhaps Grace Bird 's goddammit of irritation been directed at her and not at the ball of beige knitting wool which had just then rolled off the shelf of the dressing-table ? |
| 26 | He had a small touring company which had just suffered a couple of deaths in a carriage accident , and he was looking for two versatile and experienced ( yes ! ) players . |
| 27 | He was trying on a new coat which had just been delivered . |
| 28 | Scarlet could not now imagine how she had passed the week with the house next door empty and soulless : she tidied the kitchen in readiness for her friend 's return and sat down to read the local paper , two copies of which had just been delivered through the letterbox . |
| 29 | By 1923 , the rise of the Saudi Kingdom presented a new threat to stability , and so a convention fixed the border between the emirate of Kuwait and Iraq , which had just been created under a British mandate . |
| 30 | Lord Hulton looked down at the animal which had just stopped breathing . |