Example sentences of "[noun sg] they have just " in BNC.
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| 1 | CALLOUS thieves dumped a baby in the street after they found her in the back seat of the car they had just stolen . |
| 2 | ‘ Where had she got a tan like that after the Winter they had just endured ? ’ |
| 3 | statistically , I get far more phone calls from record companies , lawyers and very occasionally from publishers telling me about a new act they have just signed . |
| 4 | In fact on the day they signed the contracts with Wonderland for the King 's Hall they had just gone to No 1 in the charts with their new album . |
| 5 | She could hardly follow up the exchange they had just had with a question about his relationship with Puddephat . |
| 6 | People ring up about the match they 've just been to and complain or say who they think should be the next England manager , etc . |
| 7 | In fact , the wonderful night they had just shared only made her more determined than ever to go . |
| 8 | The explosions were now occurring in the area they had just evacuated , probably inflicting casualties on the British troops who had taken over the German trenches . |
| 9 | Inside Nottingham 's Ritzy club in the middle of the afternoon TV production assistants are busy organising blindfolds for a new game they 've just dreamt up called ’ Kiss , Cuddle And Feel ’ for the evening 's show . |
| 10 | They were then asked to recall the story they had just seen in either sign ( deaf and bilinguals ) or in speech ( hearing people ) . |
| 11 | They were not allowed to tarry , however , but were taken upstairs , along a gallery and into a small chamber , its simplicity in stark contrast to the splendour they had just witnessed . |
| 12 | As soon as I realised they thought I was knackered from the same route they had just walked , I was speechless with indignation . |
| 13 | His head still down , fingers tracing on his brow as if still in pain from the noise they had just heard . |
| 14 | As he came towards her out of the darkness the inevitable shock of physical awareness swept over her , sharpened now by the experience they had just shared . |
| 15 | He thought of Jessica , thought of the love they had just made , and felt his heart go cold . |
| 16 | Willie was pointing to a tiny shop down the small road they had just crossed . |
| 17 | He reached the level of the bridge , swung his back to the wall , covering the ladder they had just used as Forster made for the door . |
| 18 | Lots of fiery meetings and grand gestures , plenty of petitions to Washington and protests outside John Wayne movies , but in the end they had just been a bunch of dumb redskins battering their heads against the white man 's bricks . |
| 19 | When the coffee came he started to talk about a detail at the restaurant they had just left . |
| 20 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 21 | On hearing the doorbell , the Commander 's reaction was affected by the events of the day and the matter they had just been so emotionally discussing : irrationally , he believed he was being visited by the police . |
| 22 | Marco twisted in his seat , staring back into the cavern they had just left . |
| 23 | How could he possibly look at her like that after the beauty they 'd just shared together ? |
| 24 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 25 | Presently she turned to the politician 's companion and rounded off the meeting with an entertaining discourse on the curious food they had just eaten . |
| 26 | And his face itself had taken on an almost gaunt look , the strong bone-structure rigidly marked , and the skin itself only lightly tanned , despite the hot summer they had just enjoyed . |
| 27 | Even so , the way they had just accepted their deaths made him feel odd . |
| 28 | He was n't asking her because he wanted to discuss the station or prolong the more general conversation they had just shared . |
| 29 | Ursula returned to the hi-fi , removed the cassette they had just listened to and loaded another . |
| 30 | And then at that time they 'd just opened . |