Example sentences of "had just got " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 2 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 3 | Vague sounds from the adjoining room made her realize that her daughter had just got up . |
| 4 | She arrived one day in the clinic in the peak of health and triumphantly announced that she had just got married and was setting out to live in Palm Springs with her husband . |
| 5 | He had just got most of their luggage on board and now was in a dilemma . |
| 6 | We decided we had just got to stay put in Bromley and in Fulham . |
| 7 | Breeze wondered why his righteous indignation did not prompt him to offer his seat to one of the women who had just got in , clutching a shopping-basket with one hand and a baby with the other . |
| 8 | Mrs Stych had just got up and was still in her dressing-gown when she answered the telephone call from the Advent . |
| 9 | I had just got to the tricky bit when in walked this friend with the usual enquiries . |
| 10 | Paper seller Gerard O'Hare , 18 , had just got home when two members of the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters burst into the house with guns blazing . |
| 11 | The couple had just got married and could n't bear to be apart . |
| 12 | This was just what Artemis did n't want , some thruster charging up behind Hullabaloo whom she had just got settled , and trying to make a race of it , particularly with the big hedge fast approaching at the bottom of the dip . |
| 13 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 14 | One of their nephews , they told her , had just got his degree in agronomics , he was going to teach , he could n't afford to farm . |
| 15 | I was waiting to go up to university and had just got a job as a prep-school master . |
| 16 | Paul and Miranda Gunn had their charming young family to help them look after the guests ; their two sons Mr Munro Gunn who works at John D. Wood , and Mr Marcus Gunn who had just got home from Paris , where is working at the Paris Business School ; also their two daughters Miss Petronella Gunn , who is studying at Bristol University ; and seventeen-year-old Miss Rosie Gunn , who is a member of the Junior British Eventing team , and last year competed at Lausanne , where she won the award for the highest placed British rider . |
| 17 | I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house . |
| 18 | The simplest explanation was that he had just got tired of Jacqui . |
| 19 | Blanc had just got married . |
| 20 | I went downstairs and they told me they had just got married . |
| 21 | Her hair was black and thick and looked tangled , as though she had just got out of bed and not brushed it . |
| 22 | They had just got to the part about Dora 's Naughty Friend . |
| 23 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 24 | She thought of the agency folding , of having to give up her flat , of Sebastian , who had devoted his life to his business , paying with divorce as the price of his involvement , of Jenny in Media Research who had just got married and was struggling with a mortgage , or Ben , one of the account executives , whose wife was in hospital awaiting a kidney transplant . |
| 25 | Once folks had printed a few pages of closely spaced text , the next logical step was to print lots of pages of giant words announcing to the world that Fred and Wilma had just got married , or that winkles were on special offer at only ten bob a pound . |
| 26 | The nurse had just got married . |
| 27 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 28 | He walked slowly back to his gallery-duties , by this time in the afternoon virtually non-existent — and had just got to the top of the stairs when he saw Gooseneck advancing towards him carrying a large package . |
| 29 | I think he had just got bored and was looking for something to do , so he sought to amuse . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I had just got up , ’ said the cook . |