Example sentences of "[noun] who had just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 2 | In 1847 Richard Sheepshanks wrote of John Couch Adams , a Cambridge mathematician who had just predicted the new planet Neptune : ‘ I think there is a hope that Mr Adams will continue his astronomical career . |
| 3 | She turned to the stranger who had just finished talking to a mechanic who was now giving her car the once-over . |
| 4 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 5 | Mandy was peering through the binoculars with the intensity of an army scout who had just discovered the enemy , and with a defeated sigh Charity let her own gaze drift in the same direction . |
| 6 | In the Groeger and Chapman study the films were each viewed by 48 subjects who had just completed a drive around Cambridge with a local driving instructor . |
| 7 | She thought of the agency folding , of having to give up her flat , of Sebastian , who had devoted his life to his business , paying with divorce as the price of his involvement , of Jenny in Media Research who had just got married and was struggling with a mortgage , or Ben , one of the account executives , whose wife was in hospital awaiting a kidney transplant . |
| 8 | He turned to look at Denholm who had just arrived on the bridge . |
| 9 | He rang off and I felt a warm glow of appreciation for Fred Workman who had just offered me my first full-time job in journalism . |
| 10 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Simon Vinkenoog , the founder of Sigma Nederland provided a piece from Amsterdam for the first issue on the then prominent Provos , the proto-Green anarchists who had just won seats on that city 's council . |
| 13 | ‘ What did Irina tell you ? ’ said Franca who had just entered . |
| 14 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 15 | He turned and the girl who had just come in let out a little scream . |
| 16 | The Scottish stand-off , who was among the Lions replacements , was forced to parade , bouquet in hand , from behind one set of posts to the red carpet on the half-wayline as chaperone to Mireille Mathieu , the French songstress who had just rendered all three verses of the Marseillaise ( with the chorus repeated each time ) . |
| 17 | She was going to Birmingham to stay with her sister who had just had a baby girl . |
| 18 | After two weeks with no sign of improvement , a friend told me of an excellent new rheumatologist who had just come to work in Chester . |
| 19 | For one brief moment , it seemed as if there might be a conventional route to fame , through the young director Roman Polanski who had just entered the fast new Hollywood crowd of which Nicholson was a member , as was his friend Robert Evans , who had been recently appointed vice president of Paramount and in charge of all new production projects . |
| 20 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 21 | And in a fortnight or three weeks time they too would be found with the inquisitive crowd on the inside of the gate staring at the prisoners who had just arrived . |
| 22 | A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure . |
| 23 | He turned to John Scales who had just come in . |
| 24 | This from Garry who had just come in the front door . |
| 25 | For the tourney I returned to the serving table to serve the knights who had just fought with a drink , and serve the ladies with bread , cheese and fruit . |
| 26 | It came as no surprise in 1990 when Charlie Nicholas 's name was once again associated with a Celtic team who had just experienced their worst season for years . |
| 27 | The newcomer noticed it , declared , ‘ I like hot steam ; it gives me that real sauna feeling ’ , squeezed herself between two naked bodies and at once began to talk about yesterday 's television talk show featuring a famous biologist who had just published his memoirs . |
| 28 | Then his gaze moved to Merrill as Heather pulled Rob away to meet a small group who had just come into the room . |
| 29 | I never came across an instance of this , though I encountered a number of individuals who had just killed someone , including a complacent fourteen-year-old near Bilen . |
| 30 | Skip was saying this to Bilou who had just come from grand-prix multihull racing in France . |