Example sentences of "he had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 2 | Got out paper and pencil to try and think through the implications of what he had just seen , then gave up and started off home . |
| 3 | As he had just said , he did genuinely want to help . |
| 4 | But he had just slid his key into the lock , simply strolled in and shattered their precious time . |
| 5 | Nathan Cohen was one of them , and he had just cause to fear the upturn of the events , as did his younger brother , Horace . |
| 6 | He had just given her the chocolates and she had kissed him . |
| 7 | After all , he had just the man on his staff . |
| 8 | As an example , he opened a case of red mullet — the fashionable restaurant fish of the moment — which he had just bought . |
| 9 | At the time of his death he had just completed a second , much fuller edition , to be published in 1990 . |
| 10 | He had just won the competitive Cambridgeshire Handicap for the second time in three years . |
| 11 | ‘ That probably sounds pompous , ’ adds Laing apologetically , reflecting on what he had just said . |
| 12 | He produced the unpublished manuscript of a book he has written about his experiment , which he had just had translated into English . |
| 13 | He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany . |
| 14 | He had just ploughed through seven Seahawks . |
| 15 | He had just built a house at Beverly for Sir Charles Hotham the year before , and Ebberston was a convenient following job . |
| 16 | ‘ Nice to meet you , Chief Inspector , ’ he said with automatic politeness , then considered what he had just said , decided it was beyond explanation and led them upstairs to his office . |
| 17 | Considering that he had just made a pointless journey of several thousand miles , the young man seemed remarkably equable and spent almost the entire journey sitting cross-legged , spooning purple yoghurt into his mouth from an enormous jar and reading a novel by Thomas Mann . |
| 18 | As far as he was concerned , he had just knocked another competitor out of the promotion stakes . |
| 19 | As he had just left her . |
| 20 | The memory was staggeringly clear , as though he had just heard those other bells , as though he were just surging forward in his final spurt , kicking for home . |
| 21 | He felt weak and shaking , as though he had just had a huge shock . |
| 22 | Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first . |
| 23 | It was Mr Spyros P. Skouras who let it be known that if Kazan did not testify helpfully , the pictures he had just made might never appear and he would not be directing any more . |
| 24 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 25 | In 386 Ambrose moved relics he had just discovered in a Milan suburb to one of the new churches he had built to ring the growing city with prestigious sanctuaries ; it was a well thought out act . |
| 26 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 27 | HE HAD just flown the Atlantic and was making a three-hour pit stop in New York before catching a connecting flight to Chicago later that evening . |
| 28 | He had just won the Cannes Palme d'Or for Mission , and was looking for a new challenge . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr Sasaki had been walking was dead ; Dr Sasaki 's patient whom he had just left was also dead . |