Example sentences of "[pers pn] he have just [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 When I had a chat with him he had just celebrated Gala 's triumph at Heriot 's FP U21 sevens , in which his centre was older brother Craig .
2 When I met him he 'd just done his shopping for two weeks .
3 " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? "
4 When one of Ken 's friends told her he had just bought a new television set — a 17-inch console — she commented : ‘ Seventeen inches ?
5 He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’
6 When I complained to one of the newspaper 's senior editors , he told me he had just rejected an article highly critical of me and ray position .
7 I think that erm across the road from me he 's just mucked around .
8 When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince .
9 Barney sniggered then continued , ‘ Selwyn Hopkins told me he has just bought a motorbike .
10 If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different .
11 Er he he 'd just taken some photographs out of last year 's er annual report and put a heading up and stuck some text on it .
12 It was in the summer holidays and Matthew was going to start school , so he he 's just had his fourth birthday just had his fourth birthday when he moved in here , the twins that were coming up to their second yeah Matthew like , like Gemma , Gemma yeah and by the time I knew you that were n't the summer after
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