Example sentences of "[noun sg] who had just [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1847 Richard Sheepshanks wrote of John Couch Adams , a Cambridge mathematician who had just predicted the new planet Neptune : ‘ I think there is a hope that Mr Adams will continue his astronomical career . |
| 2 | Mandy was peering through the binoculars with the intensity of an army scout who had just discovered the enemy , and with a defeated sigh Charity let her own gaze drift in the same direction . |
| 3 | She was going to Birmingham to stay with her sister who had just had a baby girl . |
| 4 | For one brief moment , it seemed as if there might be a conventional route to fame , through the young director Roman Polanski who had just entered the fast new Hollywood crowd of which Nicholson was a member , as was his friend Robert Evans , who had been recently appointed vice president of Paramount and in charge of all new production projects . |
| 5 | Naturally one had wished to invite Mr Adolphus Moon who had just purchased a delightful house with extensive grounds near the village of Far Flatley , where Amabel herself would dearly love to build . |
| 6 | It would inflict special damage on a person who had just posted a business letter the purpose of which would be defeated by any exceptional delay . |
| 7 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 8 | ‘ A remarkable recovery , ’ drawled a young woman who had just joined the group . |
| 9 | She took a deep breath , forced herself not to feel intimidated by the exceptionally well-groomed woman who had just entered the boutique , and ventured in . |
| 10 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
| 11 | A local builder , probably the same man who had just built the beautiful house of Newton Ferrers , created this simple masterpiece in the local sea-grey basaltic stone , mixed with silvery granite from the moor up over the hill to the north . |
| 12 | Dalglish wore the demeanour of a man who had just discovered the cat had been sick in his slippers . |
| 13 | Breeze turned to glance at the man who had just entered the shop , and saw that it was Roger Kenyon . |
| 14 | Certainly the Man who had just opened the door of Woil 's cage had his attention distracted by the shout . |
| 15 | On my next visit to Southampton I tried in vain for a chat with the young man who had just won a match for Hampshire and deserved to bask in a discreet amount of praise . |
| 16 | ‘ The nurse said I was very good company , which I thought was praise indeed for a guy who had just had a coronary thrombosis . |
| 17 | I did n't know who the guy riding it was , but through my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head . |