Example sentences of "[noun] had just [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests . |
| 2 | ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of . |
| 3 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 4 | She had n't meant to ask , the words had just slipped out . |
| 5 | Niklaus had just swarmed up Resurrection , taking a bit of a flyer in the process , being into the British way of things , and was obviously having a great day out . |
| 6 | The two-seater Chipmunk aircraft had just taken off when it unexpectedly veered sharpley back towards the runway . |
| 7 | Gloria closed the sliding door , pulled down the blinds , and switched off the six lamps which Dot had just put on . |
| 8 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 9 | Quickly she read the article , then handed the paper to Fred , wondering why she felt as though the bottom had just fallen out of her world . |
| 10 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 11 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 12 | The job had just kicked off so the blokes used to just the phone inside you know if they wanted . |
| 13 | I remember , it was when flared trousers had just come in — remember when you had straight trousers and you wanted to make them into flares you sewed in a triangle of material ? |
| 14 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 15 | Bonard had just emerged on to the terrace . |
| 16 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 17 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 18 | The South African war had just broken out and I had received my embarkation orders . |
| 19 | The street lights had just come on , a little premature , and where they stood close to any of the orphan-like trees their electric brightness was captured in the mesh of dusty leaves , giving the street an elegance it had otherwise long since lost . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's tough and game and the ground at Ayr should suit her better than this , ’ said Willie after Lochsong had just held on to take the Portland . |
| 21 | Charles wondered what new disaster had hit the production , or which of the producer 's dubious deals had just blown up in his face . |
| 22 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 23 | and , anyway she was poorly for days and this Rita had just come on , poorly for days |
| 24 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
| 25 | Owen reached out his hand for the coffee a bearer had just brought in . |
| 26 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 27 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 28 | Joseph had just stepped out of his room and was pulling the door closed when Patrick came panting up the stairs . |
| 29 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 30 | The request had just come in . |