Example sentences of "[pron] had just [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Abramson , of Shirley Road , Allerton , said last night : ‘ I had just gone to the off-licence to help my daughter Trudie while her husband went for his tea . |
| 2 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 3 | You see , I had just graduated to the position of providing a horse and cart , and any amount of people wanted that job so I would have lost it , maybe for good , if I had n't turned up . |
| 4 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 5 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 6 | I had just got to the tricky bit when in walked this friend with the usual enquiries . |
| 7 | I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’ |
| 8 | When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl . |
| 9 | Her knees seemed to have turned to water , her mind still reeling under the impact of the devastating revelation which had just come to her . |
| 10 | Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation . |
| 11 | She had just gone to pieces and she had caused it all herself . |
| 12 | Another example of Portia 's dishonesty is shown when she tests Bassanio with the ring she had just given to him . |
| 13 | Never in her entire life had she spoken to anyone the way she had just spoken to Nathan Bryce . |
| 14 | It was , of course , poor thing , out of practice at making decisions of the kind she had just put to it ; it had , Anna considered , been given an easy ride for twenty years . |
| 15 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 16 | It was n't only the words she had just used to Marguerite . |
| 17 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 18 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 19 | Michael Perrin , a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place . |
| 20 | Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten . |
| 21 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 22 | That was quite enough for someone who had just admitted to disliking exchanges of confidence except to his intimates . |
| 23 | as if something had just occurred to her , Bella turned her head to look at Marie : ‘ Must be a bit of a shock to you an ’ all . |
| 24 | One night — I think it was the night before Christmas Eve — we had just returned to the cottage after a hard day next door doing some of the ‘ few finishing-off jobs ’ Nigel had earlier specified . |
| 25 | All went so well after that that there had just had to be one monumental disaster waiting to happen , Leith later realised . |
| 26 | They had just risen to their feet when a strident voice exclaimed , ‘ Well , will you look who 's here … ? ’ |
| 27 | They had just gone to their bedroom , leaving friends and relatives at the reception downstairs , when the alarm was raised at 1am . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Ursula returned to the hi-fi , removed the cassette they had just listened to and loaded another . |
| 30 | They had just got to the part about Dora 's Naughty Friend . |