Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] he have just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told her he had been thinking of the text he had just learnt , ‘ Prepare to meet thy God , ’ and perhaps he might die tonight , and he did not know if he was ready , if his sins were all forgiven … |
| 2 | With a screech of brakes , and a squeal of wheels , Bodie reversed into a parking space and shot back along the route he had just taken . |
| 3 | As Montgomery showed the professor to the door , he was struck by areas of similarity between the story he had just heard , and the past history of Sergeant Bird . |
| 4 | Beside this a man in blue overalls , wearing a cheap aluminium facemask , is cutting off the strip he has just laid between the joists . |
| 5 | ‘ This ? ’ said Marco , glancing at the tape he 'd just slotted . |
| 6 | He was measuring the fear he had just felt . |
| 7 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 8 | He would then hear the footsteps coming from the corridor he had just left ! |
| 9 | Grant 's hand darted for his torch , but even as his fingers touched it , the floor shook under him and he heard a tremendous rumbling crash in the corridor he had just left . |
| 10 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 11 | Ben , however , did not remark on the scene he had just witnessed , but said , ‘ There 's a friend of yours in the yard who would like to have a word with you . |
| 12 | He told Ram to kill her as well and hurried away to take refuge in the banqueting hall and try to erase from his mind the scene he had just witnessed . |
| 13 | Mesmerised by the scene he had witnessed , and agonised by the scene he had just had with Mrs Figgis-Hewett , when he saw her costume and vainly attempted to dissuade her , Auguste recalled his prime duty and reluctantly despatched Alfred to the dining room to prepare for the serving of wines at the Prince 's table . |
| 14 | The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’ |
| 15 | In the other , the sort he 's just woken from , he becomes an eyewitness to terrible events he 's seen on TV . |
| 16 | Sliding into the warmth he had just left , inhaling the scent of him on the pillows , surrounded by his clothes , books and possessions , she could feel her resolve to keep him at arm 's length ebbing relentlessly away . |
| 17 | Curtis squinted up at the sheriff through the curling smoke of the cigarette he had just lit . |
| 18 | Then he stood up and strode from the room , and she all but collapsed into the chair he 'd just vacated , feeling as though she 'd been battered by a storm at sea . |
| 19 | The news he had just imparted had had the effect he had expected . |
| 20 | The sink he had just cleaned was stained badly . |
| 21 | He found it difficult to reconcile the opulence he had just witnessed with the poverty of some of the surrounding districts . |
| 22 | This dismemberment of the kingdom he had just won is indicative of the underlying weakness of Balliol 's position . |
| 23 | So he turned round the second he did , and made it look as though he was waiting for the woman he 'd just tried to kill — when they were walking along together … |
| 24 | He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen . |
| 25 | And the Frenchman he had just killed might do so . |
| 26 | As he sat in a roaring solitary splendour twenty thousand feet over the turbulent , endless ocean wastes , he had no idea of the appropriateness of the poem he had just read . |
| 27 | The man he had just killed had been with him the night he died . |
| 28 | Ward 's left hand crashed down on the table , spilling coffee from the cup he had just filled . |
| 29 | I think er what the county council 's position is in terms of the statement he 's just read out it is that er the county council strategic framework , the structure plan alteration number three , the high fly policy which we discussed yesterday , is an attempt to address the needs of the districts and if we 've got this right then sufficient land should be identified or allocated to the districts within Policy I five . |
| 30 | Collimore will remain a threat from the corner he has just won . |