Example sentences of "he had just [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires .
2 Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp .
3 For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world .
4 He was not available for comment , however , as he had just flown off to Australia .
5 She did not remember anyone inviting Tim , he had just tagged on to them , but she felt it was safer to take him than leave him near Durance in case he made any further blackmail attempts .
6 John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) .
7 He led me into the hut he had just come out of
8 He pointed to the one he had just come out of .
9 And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian .
10 He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started .
11 Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth .
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