Example sentences of "had just " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 2 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 3 | Many of these had just as much sense of loyalty and devotion to the church as the middle classes . |
| 4 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 5 | Got out paper and pencil to try and think through the implications of what he had just seen , then gave up and started off home . |
| 6 | Golden lads and lasses had just breakfasted on golden toast , a little blackened at the edge in some cases , spread with golden shred or golden syrup . |
| 7 | Sergeant Bramble had just returned from the Manor House upon his bicycle . |
| 8 | A fourth cherry had been in the slice the Councillor had just removed and eaten . |
| 9 | Had just the stuff in the shed . |
| 10 | Charles Howard had just delivered me a colossal snub . |
| 11 | I had just about reached the stairs , when suddenly a white door to my right burst open and a group of students tumbled out , shrieking with laughter . |
| 12 | As he had just said , he did genuinely want to help . |
| 13 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 14 | She settled down to my right where Steve had just been sitting . |
| 15 | Bridget had just fetched the vacuum cleaner . |
| 16 | My plan was shattered — my whole life had just been shattered . |
| 17 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 18 | This tendency to dichotomize policemen against the social reformer even led the ex-police liberal John Alderson uncharacteristically to describe the historian E. P. Thompson as being ‘ an unfair critic of the police ’ ( Public Office , Granada TV , 20 June 1980 ) ; and this at a time when Thompson ( 1980 ) had just pointed out that most policemen are ‘ ordinary blokes , and no society could do without them in dealing with many of its sordid realities ’ . |
| 19 | But he had just slid his key into the lock , simply strolled in and shattered their precious time . |
| 20 | Then woke to the empty pillow beside hers ; body stretched in delicious ecstasy , as if her sweet saint had just that second ghosted away . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her . |
| 22 | Nathan Cohen was one of them , and he had just cause to fear the upturn of the events , as did his younger brother , Horace . |
| 23 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 24 | She turned up a lane which was even steeper than the road she had just left . |
| 25 | She had just enough money . |
| 26 | He had just given her the chocolates and she had kissed him . |
| 27 | The Statue of Liberty had just arrived from Paris and was being assembled so it was not in New York harbour when they arrived . |
| 28 | When Eleanor left , the Statue of Liberty had just been unveiled in New York harbour . |
| 29 | Well , three nuts spat me out and I can honestly say that the first time I fell , headfirst , facing outwards , above the wall we had just climbed , I really did see stars . |
| 30 | What Razumikhm had just said about Porfiry also disturbed him . |