Example sentences of "i had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had just about reached the stairs , when suddenly a white door to my right burst open and a group of students tumbled out , shrieking with laughter . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I had just one fish from the swim the week before but this time had five botes and took four fish , ’ said David . |
| 4 | I had just left the shelter of my brolly as a pout started to rattle my rod tip when a 5 oz sinker ripped a hole through my brolly . |
| 5 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 6 | I had just beaten Tony thanks to that lucky chub . |
| 7 | It was nice to be with others ; I had just had three weeks on my tod with company only in Reykjavik campsite . |
| 8 | I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool . |
| 9 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 10 | I had just finished building a 16-track studio in my house and asked him to come and have a go on that equipment that even the very big studios did n't have . |
| 11 | In the jury were such well-known ‘ independent ’ commentators as Rodney Bickerstaffe of NUPE , a Regional Health Authority Chairman I had just replaced , a nurses ' negotiator , a consultant who wanted more money for his hospital and an ancillary health worker . |
| 12 | ‘ I had just left school and was doing a fashion journalism course at the London College of Fashion . |
| 13 | ‘ I had just turned 60 and thought I might be written out and in need of a break . |
| 14 | I had just asked butterfly ecologist Marney Hall whether , since butterflies are getting scarce in this country , a garden like this would really work . |
| 15 | His view of Ireland , a highly romanticised one , had been initiated by his reading of Heinrich Böll 's Irisches Tagebuch which , coincidentally , I had just read as a way of getting into German again after two decades of neglect . |
| 16 | The display windows of the shops had also been taken over and in some of them were displayed uniforms such as that of the Russian Legion which I had just seen . |
| 17 | The subject was a book I had just published on the history of the world over the past 60 years . |
| 18 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 19 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 20 | It was a different world entirely from the one I had just left … . |
| 21 | It began with a dream I had just before I got up . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I had just finished serving a glass to a gentleman when a voice behind me said : ‘ Ah , Stevens , you 're interested in fish , you say . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I had just started working as a landscape architect for a water authority , and my duties were to involve planting trees around reservoirs and new office buildings . |
| 26 | When I had just erected the tent , Paddy laid aside his empty plate , strolled over , opened a locker and , with an expression of humorous disgust , peered inside and said , ‘ What d' you keep in there ? |
| 27 | Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one . |
| 28 | I had just woken and could hear my pulse . |
| 29 | I had just come out of one of my planning meetings and I metaphorically banged the table and said ‘ I know exactly what you should do . ’ |
| 30 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |