Example sentences of "a [noun] he have just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's a route he has just retraced for the character of Fergus , the IRA man who attempts to re-make his life in The Crying Game ] , an experience Jordan understands well . |
2 | He poured it from a Victorian coffee pot waiting on a hotplate and launched into a description of a case he 'd just won punctuated by blasts of laughter and big gestures . |
3 | He moves onto a review he 's just read of his book Eyes To The Hills , considers in detail the argument it follows and expresses frustration that his rigorous intellectual approach has been mistaken for pretension . |
4 | An angler removes a fish he has just landed at Old Windsor . |
5 | One of the best stories I recall was related by Norman Willis , the general secretary of the TUC , who once had the enlightening experience of watching a leaflet he had just delivered catch fire . |
6 | Another dealer owed a few hundred pounds by the director of a firm he had just left , drove one night with some friends to his house , where they flung bricks through every window . |
7 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
8 | This was a variation on the routine he would put himself through every time after a man he had just slept with had left the flat ; he would check his body for scratches , bruises and teethmarks . |
9 | Yeah I was talking to her and she 's got this ma he 's not a spastic he 's just got such bad taste in music and he just plays it like it 's sort of like |
10 | A MANIAC slashed a teenage girl 's throat with a knife he had just bought at a packed car boot sale . |
11 | That was a word he had just discovered . |
12 | And I do n't want you touching anything of mine , ’ she added fiercely , wrenching out of his hand a book he had just picked up . |
13 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
14 | He was sitting at his desk , reading a letter he had just written . |