Example sentences of "[that] she had just " in BNC.

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1 She arrived one day in the clinic in the peak of health and triumphantly announced that she had just got married and was setting out to live in Palm Springs with her husband .
2 How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily .
3 But it is easy to see that , for example , a young mother who had recently been left by her husband , and gone back to a ( very good ) job , would pile up several different low scores , all linked to the fact that she had just become a single parent .
4 His most touching moment came after Dreamflight a couple of years ago when he was asked to rush to the bedside of a leukaemia victim who wanted to see the photos of the trip that she had just enjoyed so much .
5 It coincided with the news that she had just signed a new one year shoe contract with the company as part of its ongoing support for British tennis .
6 Until , in the end , Carrie began to think she must have made it all up , that she had just dreamed all those things he had said .
7 ‘ No ! ’ the Doctor said , and at the same time Bernice was trying to remember exactly when she had had the conversation that she had just remembered so clearly .
8 I could tell by her voice that she had just said something which she believed , and I was surprised , because I had somehow thought her too clever really to believe anything .
9 She looked me over , said I seemed to be a nice girl and announced that she had just the job for me — taking her goats out for a walk !
10 She once reported to Robert Landgrebe , marketing manager , in a voice of genuine shock that she had just been on an aeroplane with three accountants ‘ and do you know , they tried to talk to me about design ’ .
11 Then she looked behind her and saw a carriage coming up the same hill that she had just climbed , with a man leading the horse .
12 She knew what he was looking at — the pile of birthday cards on the kitchen table , and the letter that she had just started to rip open when he had first thumped on her door .
13 ‘ Little did she know that she had just landed one of the world 's greatest exponents of ‘ leap before you look ’ as a buyer , or she 'd probably have persuaded you to buy London Bridge and a stake in a Peruvian gold-mine at the same time . ’
14 When Leo made some small movement , she was suddenly brought back to the present and became mortifyingly aware that she had just emptied her heart to a virtual stranger .
15 If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence .
16 My mum came in at about 07.15 , holding out my black suit and a white shirt that she had just ironed .
17 Without giving her name , she supplied them with Veronica 's address , and the information that she had just seen two men acting suspiciously in the garden .
18 Frau Gess telephoned very early in the morning to say that she had just called the doctor .
19 He strode away without giving her a chance to speak , leaving her with the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered .
20 Why did she get the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered ?
21 She realised , wearily , almost too tired to care , that she had just been made the butt of a joke .
22 Some hours after the alleged attack , Sharon McLean ran out of the Peace Gardens in Holt Street , near Wrexham police station , and pretended that she had just discovered the body , the jury was told .
23 She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute .
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