Example sentences of "just finished " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nancarrow , who has only just finished a ban for venting his anger by making an obscene gesture to a referee during the British Open , was reported to the tournament director for abusing match officials , his opponent , and the court . |
| 2 | Ten a.m. , 24th July ; just finished breakfast with the mortar team and relaxing for a few minutes over a mug of hot tea discussing the number of casualties after the heavy shelling last night . |
| 3 | The time is now 7.30 p.m. and I have just finished a very good meal of my favourite steak and kidney out of , of course , the self-heating tin . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , 14/ 20th Hussars came back off exercise with a lot of dead equipment and 2nd Field Regiment has just finished a major inspection in preparation for firing camp starting in three weeks . |
| 5 | The patrol commander had just finished briefing the police on the situation when one of the patrol shouted , ‘ There 's someone in the bank . ’ |
| 6 | The team of three , led by Dr Peter Holmes , have just finished the last field work of a three-year study of the effect on invertebrates of different peatland management strategies across Wales . |
| 7 | I had just finished building a 16-track studio in my house and asked him to come and have a go on that equipment that even the very big studios did n't have . |
| 8 | Fifty miles north , Sarah Morgan had just finished serving a lunch that no one had done more than pick at . |
| 9 | Evidently a class had just finished and the place was boiling with ponies , small children , pink-faced with exertion in oversized helmets covered with bright silks , parents urging them to hurry up and get in cars , and teenage girls bulging out of light jodhpurs organizing the whole . |
| 10 | ANTHONY GREEN ON HIS WIFE , MARY : ‘ I 've just finished a picture about Mary and me making love on my mother 's spare bed . |
| 11 | My people have just finished their knitting and a thousand dishcloths are on their way to you . |
| 12 | She has just finished a portrait of seven-year-old Tulip Dempster , a Pekingese , commissioned by Lady Camilla for Nigel Dempster 's birthday — the second one she has done for the family — and a portrait of Mr and Mrs John Menzies ' two dogs . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd just finished editing The Dairy Book of Home Management , which eventually sold 1.5m copies , and I was living in the Kings Road . ’ |
| 14 | Cultural standards in the court have risen since George III remarked to Edward Gibbon , when the latter had just finished his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ‘ Another big fat book ! |
| 15 | We had just finished the Card Trio in Act 3 with Leontyne and the two other gipsy girls in splendid voice , while Karajan 's accompaniment had been an education in itself . |
| 16 | Kylie had just finished primary school and along with Dannii , got the chance to audition for a part in The Sullivans , a long-running soap set in World War II . |
| 17 | PHILIPPE ROZIER , who has just finished a three-month ban after Oscar Minotiere was found over the permitted limit of the painkiller , butazolidine , rode the same horse to victory for France in the Euro Horse Trophy in Gothenberg yesterday , writes Alan Smith . |
| 18 | Finally , a protest from a woman who says she had just finished Helen Bullock 's ‘ oh-so-true ’ article when her husband came in and said : ’ ‘ There seems to be a bit of toast on the floor in the other room ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ We have only just finished the legal disputes , ’ he says , ‘ and we 're still fighting compensation battles . |
| 20 | ‘ I see , ’ said April , laying aside the sock she 'd just finished darning . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Rex Reed , a writer for the New York Times saw Nicholson when he had just finished making On A Clear Day and thought that Jack was starting to make establishment noises , cleaning up his image , shaving his stubble and ditching the sandals and hippie clothes . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , I 've just finished a letter . |
| 24 | I had just finished serving a glass to a gentleman when a voice behind me said : ‘ Ah , Stevens , you 're interested in fish , you say . ’ |
| 25 | It is late evening and Marianne , Walter and I have just finished a large couscous washed down by several bottles of heady local wine . |
| 26 | They 've just finished a new office block with the lowest handrails . |
| 27 | Finally , Mrs Popple decided to throw a dinner-plate — they had just finished eating — and Albert Popple stormed out of the house . |
| 28 | At the time of his stroke , he had just finished a major biography , which had received critical acclaim , and he was researching for his next book . |
| 29 | The odour of fried bacon surrounded him , and a dirty plate and cutlery , pushed to the corner of the table , showed that Albert had just finished his evening meal . |
| 30 | One just finished was already with my publisher waiting to go into print . |