Example sentences of "had just [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 2 | She settled down to my right where Steve had just been sitting . |
| 3 | My plan was shattered — my whole life had just been shattered . |
| 4 | When Eleanor left , the Statue of Liberty had just been unveiled in New York harbour . |
| 5 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 6 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |
| 7 | By coincidence , a manager who spoke good French and understood the French market place had just been recruited . |
| 8 | We was in this railway station and Marie had just been to the dentist . |
| 9 | In the command post further back from the beach , Corporal Williams , the duty radio operator , was decoding a message which had just been received . |
| 10 | Mr Wolfe had just been doing his customary job of explaining to the passengers why we were late : ‘ We have an emergency situation which is not a real alarm situation . ’ |
| 11 | He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany . |
| 12 | It was his grandson who , in 1831 , enlisted the help of a Lambton , who had just been made Earl of Durham , to prove his claim to the Earldom of Perth . |
| 13 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 14 | The great purges were about to begin , and his younger rival , Dimitri Shostakovich , had just been violently denounced for the supposed perversions of his opera ‘ Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ’ . |
| 15 | Our fathers , who had just been demobbed , struggled to build |
| 16 | Unfortunately it had just been earmarked for housing . |
| 17 | Eleanor had just been photographed for one of the supplements and it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news . |
| 18 | Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first . |
| 19 | I used to like giving poetry readings , but in the end I had to give up , for I could not stand the socializing afterwards , as if my poetry had just been the excuse for a drinking spree à la Dylan Thomas . |
| 20 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 21 | But we did n't want to cause embarrassment — after all , they had just been awarded a ‘ Proddy ’ award for services to dogs ! |
| 22 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 23 | Among his opponents was Pinza , ridden by Gordon Richards , the most successful and ( more to the point ) most loved jockey in British Turf history , yet still trying to win the Derby after twenty-seven unavailing attempts : to add further spice to the occasion , the announcement had just been made that Richards had been awarded a knighthood , the first jockey to be so honoured . |
| 24 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 25 | Michael Forsyth , the Scottish Office minister whose portfolio includes two of the most hotly debated issues of the election campaign — health and education — had just been formally adopted by his constituency association to contest the Stirling seat . |
| 26 | The fact was that his own heart had grown irresistibly fond of the love of his life , Senora Isabel-Maria Estanguet de Moss , whose husband had just been posted to the Argentinian Embassy in Brussels . |
| 27 | Ukraine appointed Rear-Adml Boris Kozhin , previously commander of the Crimean naval base , as head of all naval forces in the republic , even though he had just been sacked by Adml Igor Kasatonov , the CIS 's Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , for ‘ inflaming national strife ’ . |
| 28 | After 87 minutes Luton 's woe was complete as Sharp headed in a cross from Bernard , who had just been denied by another splendid stop from Chamberlain . |
| 29 | We knew she had just been promoted at work , so it could n't be that . |
| 30 | The trash cans were big and had just been emptied , and in an instant the boys were off chasing the girls and yelling at the tops of their voices . |