Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] just passed " in BNC.
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1 | Glancing round , I saw I had just passed on the roadside a farm cottage — from which a young woman in an apron , her attention no doubt aroused by the horn , had come running . |
2 | I had just passed my RAF selection and went up to Soho with a couple of mates to celebrate . |
3 | I 've just passed my A levels I 've got loads of papers going what can I do . |
4 | Striker ‘ You 've just passed Michael Johnson , ’ screamed the poster . |
5 | As she faced out to sea then turned back to face the land through which she had just passed , her eyes were unseeing ; only the past was visible . |
6 | An old lady , like that ancient crone who lived in the cottage she had just passed , who had a hairy mole on her chin and squinted hideously . |
7 | Whether you have just passed your driving test , made your first pot of jam or walked into a room full of strangers , you have been a success . |
8 | ‘ How often in the course of driving a car , taking a walk , or some routine activity , do you ‘ wake up ’ to discover that , for the moment at least , you have no recollection of the places you have just passed through or the things you have just done ? ’ |
9 | It 's a kind of accompanying resolution to the one that you have just passed . |
10 | in this budget that we 've just passed and what we want to make sure is how that money is being spent . |
11 | Now tell me what signs we 've just passed ? ’ |
12 | There 's house , we 've just passed it now on the and it 's er a Montana Clematis . |
13 | Sarah Burge was a Barnardo child , who was photographed in eighteen eighty three — in fact we 've just passed the centenary , I realize , of this occasion — at eight years old , and I 've seen the photograph and it was , of course , used for fund raising purposes , but I wrote a poem to this obviously long dead girl . |
14 | I was sure I remembered the oil drum we had just passed . |
15 | It seemed reckless to press on , and we had just passed a safe , if inconvenient , landing site . |
16 | In fact it was only a minute or so from the M27 and we had just passed over the Queen Elizabeth Bridge at Dartford . |
17 | We had just passed over a gaggle of eighteen-thousand-foot volcanoes , great slag heaps of ash with gaping vents pointed at the clear blue bowl of the heavens , when he finally shifted in his seat and leaned across me to look out of the window , blinking his eyes . |
18 | We had just passed Duncansby Head when there was a very expensive noise from the engineroom , the port engine revs rose to a crescendo , then the engine stopped with a sickening crash . |
19 | They had just passed that level now , and the darkness that yawned within the flue was black and inviting . |
20 | They have just passed a resolution banning Irish jokes , under the impression that jokes are the enemy of tolerance and affection . |
21 | ‘ I suspect a lot of them get carried away and think because they have just passed their test they are great drivers . |
22 | He 'd just passed his test . |
23 | Sara said as Slater , turning briefly to greet somebody he had just passed , came over to them . |
24 | He 's just passed his test there . |