Example sentences of "had just [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So we were back before the firebox , exhausted and happy , and Laura had just shut down the kiln , when Edward came round into the yard again .
2 Next to a photograph of John were a few words of text which Chris had just written off the top of his head :
3 One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room .
4 Lonrho had just bought out the brewing concern Heinrichs , which in 1964 had started another daily , called the Zambia Times , and a weekly , the Zambia News .
5 A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure .
6 ’ It had just picked up the muzak .
7 The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown .
8 Ron had just put down the telephone .
9 ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team .
10 I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention .
11 At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales .
12 It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores .
13 At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team .
14 The tot , Britain 's most premature surviving child , had just come off the danger list after a three-month fight for life .
15 The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan .
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