Example sentences of "[Wh det] she have just " in BNC.

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1 As she faced out to sea then turned back to face the land through which she had just passed , her eyes were unseeing ; only the past was visible .
2 But her own internal stresses — her anxiety over Between the Acts which she had just finished , and the fear that she had lost the power to write — closed in on her as that unmitigable depression , her companion of old , took final hold .
3 A few months after the service started there was a tragedy when the young daughter of Mr. Whitehead , Headmaster of The Salisbury School ( now Chafyn Grove ) was killed as she ran behind the reversing bus from which she had just alighted .
4 Gravel spurted from the heels of her boots as she crawled furiously up the cliff down which she had just slid .
5 ‘ What have they done to you now ? ’ she had mildly enquired , looking up from a photocopy of an article on The Compulsion to Public Prayer : a study of religious neurosis in a post-Christian society which she had just received in her own post , and Charles had said , ‘ Asked us to a New Year 's Eve party . ’
6 She was obviously in distress , raising herself on all fours , snatching the hair from her face as she looked back in terror at the plaster wall from which she had just come .
7 For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come .
8 Laura had agreed while casting a wry glance up at the roof , on which she had just spent many thousands of pounds .
9 Rachel swung round indignantly from the filing cabinet which she had just unlocked ready to take out the records for that morning 's surgery .
10 The mirror was veined with gold and misted with the scented steam of the bath from which she 'd just emerged .
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12 Even in the turmoil of his own thoughts , Gazzer found himself registering surprise at what she had just said : ‘ She knows ! ’ he thought .
13 His forehead tingled and he put his back against the door , trying to locate himself , trying to absorb what she had just said .
14 Pondering what she had just heard , Wilson went home , wondering if Mr Browning felt the same distrust of Mrs Eckley as she did .
15 What she had just been through was insane and illogical , but also unambiguous and actual .
16 She switched on a desk lamp , and quickly scanned what she had just written , murmuring to herself .
17 Her father looked at her and nodded , which was a sure sign that he disagreed with what she had just said .
18 Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation .
19 Blanche absorbed the implication of what she had just been told : Mills had not betrayed Zbigniew Nowak and so could not have been murdered because of it .
20 Blanche looked up for a moment to chew the implications of what she had just read when another alien sound impinged .
21 And then it rained ; glorious , refreshing rain , washing away the awfulness of what she had just seen .
22 The Josephs were squabbling about whether Merlyn should have done what she had just done , whether Barbara Coleman had not truly deserved it .
23 For some reason she found what she had just said enormously funny , and exploded into the phone with a fruity laugh before putting down her receiver .
24 She stood there until the rapturous applause died down and the peacock screen rose from the floor , hiding all behind it , then , her eyes clouded by emotional tears conjured up by the sheer beauty of what she had just witnessed , she turned blindly , colliding with a hard male body .
25 The servant who passed the story on to the firefighters had been standing nearby taking in all that was being said until a glance from Meredith Putt through the partly open door sent her scuttling upstairs to complete her work , filled with apprehension by what she had just heard .
26 Rachel stared at her sister in silence , shocked by what she had just heard , not so much by the fact that Paul Mason had been married but because he was as different from David Markham as it was possible for a man to be , and none of them had even suspected what had been happening .
27 For a moment , she was n't sure of what she 'd just said .
28 She could hardly believe what she 'd just done .
29 Kate stared back at him , hardly daring to believe what she 'd just heard .
30 She remembered what she 'd just been doing .
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