Example sentences of "i have just [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God , I was nearly in an accident last night , that reminds me , coming , I 'd just turned off the Wrexham road , er going along the Paisword one |
| 2 | I switched on the engine , closed my eyes and … felt like I 'd just stepped onto a corporation bus . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door , and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could , under these circumstances and in some pain , treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before , and talk to me about this and that , and nothing at all . |
| 5 | I had just gone down the road when the bomb went off . |
| 6 | Mr Abramson , of Shirley Road , Allerton , said last night : ‘ I had just gone to the off-licence to help my daughter Trudie while her husband went for his tea . |
| 7 | I had just moved into a flat with my boyfriend and I was beginning to feel very guilty . |
| 8 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
| 9 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 10 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 11 | The subject was a book I had just published on the history of the world over the past 60 years . |
| 12 | You see , I had just graduated to the position of providing a horse and cart , and any amount of people wanted that job so I would have lost it , maybe for good , if I had n't turned up . |
| 13 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
| 14 | Mowbray said : ‘ I had just recovered from an Achilles injury on my right leg when I hurt my left ankle . |
| 15 | Andrea Godfrey , 25 , who comes from Darlington and works for a London-based advertising agency , said : ‘ I had just got on the train when I heard this tremendous bang . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I had just got to the tricky bit when in walked this friend with the usual enquiries . |
| 18 | I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’ |
| 19 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 've just travelled on a train that has had its inside scraped and engraved with the upside-down , sideways , capitals language of fanatics of the football game . |
| 23 | I 've just retired from the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service after just over thirty years service having reached , reached the er full time that I matured , that 's thirty years service and attaining the ripe old age of fifty five . |
| 24 | Bill rang police up and he says , oh he said I 've just run over a dog ! |
| 25 | erm It 's not easy to give an example that 's brief , because of what I 've just said about the style , but I offer one very short passage here , which might or might not convey what I 'm attempting to say . |
| 26 | We have that many er applications I mean I 've just gone through A division and I 've got er a pile of cards literally an inch thick with people a made an initial inquiry or b they 've been furnished with questionnaires and not been returned , so I 'm sending those er right through the divisions |
| 27 | Well I 've just warmed in the microwave . |
| 28 | I 've just moved into a cottage on the edge of Warminster . ’ |
| 29 | I 've just moved into a new flat , I do n't have a telephone . |
| 30 | Now erm how have we got er I 've next thing on the handout is something I 've stuck on about the way in which erm er well it 's what I 've just covered about the the way in which some sorts of therapies for people who 've been abused as children tend to embody rather heterosexist assumptions which has been stated by Jenny Kissinger for example . |