Example sentences of "had just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That bit 's too short , ’ said the boy looking at the piece of wire that Philip had just cut . |
| 2 | That was the view of Swansea team manager and former international Roger Blyth after Jones had just edged his personal battle against Llanelli 's Rupert Moon at a packed Stradey Park . |
| 3 | The picture Gay had just painted was a very attractive one . |
| 4 | ‘ If he had just painted a cushion instead ! ’ sighed one viewer , as it was bought in at $140,000 ( £80,459 ) ( est. $25–275,000 ) . |
| 5 | I had just beaten Tony thanks to that lucky chub . |
| 6 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 7 | Joseph and the other boy had drawn playing cards for her , and Joseph 's ten of hearts had just beaten David Mali 's nine of diamonds . |
| 8 | The camera showed that the little left-hander had just beaten Allan Mullally 's return from long-leg and ‘ extra ’ umpire Chris Balderstone , the former Leicestershire player , passed on the news to his two colleagues in the middle . |
| 9 | He comforted himself that his wife , being foreign , had just repeated the phrase parrot-fashion and did n't mean by it what he would have meant . |
| 10 | The last arrow slit had just flashed past when a large shadow loomed on the wall in front of her . |
| 11 | She looked at Roman , so strong and dependable ; any woman would give thanks every day of her life for a man like him , and she had just ruined any chance she had of being that woman . |
| 12 | ‘ We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 13 | We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 14 | The Australian team had just played the first ‘ Test ’ at Carisbrook , in which Crawford had done nothing to harm his reputation , taking 3 for 64 of 0 to 18 , as well as knocking up 53 in his only innings . |
| 15 | They had just played together . |
| 16 | I was comfortable , I had just accepted things how they were . |
| 17 | Even so , the way they had just accepted their deaths made him feel odd . |
| 18 | Maury had just completed Physical Geography of the Sea , the first textbook on oceanography published in 1855 . |
| 19 | At the time of his death he had just completed a second , much fuller edition , to be published in 1990 . |
| 20 | When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945 I had just completed my Higher School Certificate in the traditional three subjects , with a year to spare before being called up for National Service . |
| 21 | The guest of honour was Lord Denning , who had just completed his report into the Profumo scandal of that year . |
| 22 | He had just completed work on a new two-and-three-quarter-ounce trout-rod , and had asked his brother , John , to try it out . |
| 23 | Elwood lived with his parents on Ross Street West , and I remember going to his house one day in late June when he had just completed his high school training to offer him a job at CHAB . |
| 24 | Early pupils were mainly youths who had just completed general schooling , and medical students , who may have served some years of apprenticeship to a surgeon , and to whom the contrast between an overcrowded surgical profession , and the developing veterinary profession , favoured the latter . |
| 25 | ANDY Chipling sat back and admired the computer programme he had just completed , bent down to switch on his printer at the powerpoint and stared in horror as a week 's toil disappeared off the screen . |
| 26 | An R-1830 Twin Wasp for ‘ nostalgia ’ operator Classic Air of Switzerland had just completed tear-down during our visit . |
| 27 | Mr Bush had just completed the most successful six months of his presidency . |
| 28 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 29 | It was amazing how much Eliot knew about history , as I , who had just completed a History degree , my second qualification , had reason to know . |
| 30 | Director Tony Smith had just completed the prize-winning TV series Tutti Frutti , but these were to be some of his first commercials . |