Example sentences of "[noun sg] he have just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANDY Chipling sat back and admired the computer programme he had just completed , bent down to switch on his printer at the powerpoint and stared in horror as a week 's toil disappeared off the screen . |
| 2 | is Nigel erm and him and his girlfriend he 's just bought erm a maisonette down you know |
| 3 | ‘ This ? ’ said Marco , glancing at the tape he 'd just slotted . |
| 4 | He moves onto a review he 's just read of his book Eyes To The Hills , considers in detail the argument it follows and expresses frustration that his rigorous intellectual approach has been mistaken for pretension . |
| 5 | He was measuring the fear he had just felt . |
| 6 | The Prophet sprinted from the alley exit scant seconds before the first of the police cars roared out of the fog and screeched to a halt at the dark gap he had just left . |
| 7 | Ben , however , did not remark on the scene he had just witnessed , but said , ‘ There 's a friend of yours in the yard who would like to have a word with you . |
| 8 | He told Ram to kill her as well and hurried away to take refuge in the banqueting hall and try to erase from his mind the scene he had just witnessed . |
| 9 | Watching him stride away , hurt and humiliated by the shocking scene he had just witnessed , she wondered whether she should tell him her secret . |
| 10 | Mesmerised by the scene he had witnessed , and agonised by the scene he had just had with Mrs Figgis-Hewett , when he saw her costume and vainly attempted to dissuade her , Auguste recalled his prime duty and reluctantly despatched Alfred to the dining room to prepare for the serving of wines at the Prince 's table . |
| 11 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 12 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 13 | He would then hear the footsteps coming from the corridor he had just left ! |
| 14 | Grant 's hand darted for his torch , but even as his fingers touched it , the floor shook under him and he heard a tremendous rumbling crash in the corridor he had just left . |
| 15 | Fanshawe clearly thought that Quigley was the product of the chemical reaction he had just engendered . |
| 16 | In the other , the sort he 's just woken from , he becomes an eyewitness to terrible events he 's seen on TV . |
| 17 | The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’ |
| 18 | Sliding into the warmth he had just left , inhaling the scent of him on the pillows , surrounded by his clothes , books and possessions , she could feel her resolve to keep him at arm 's length ebbing relentlessly away . |
| 19 | The most striking example of an ( unsuccessful ) attempt at bribery was described by an officer who was offered a free choice of goods from a manufacturer 's showroom if he would pour away a formal sample he had just taken ( see s. iii , ch. 6 ) . |
| 20 | He held a newly-made fish cake in his two hands like a cricket ball he had just caught . |
| 21 | For he is suddenly , miraculously , aware that he has got a wonderful — no ! — a perfect alibi ; an alibi which has been given to him by the very person he has just killed . |
| 22 | This dismemberment of the kingdom he had just won is indicative of the underlying weakness of Balliol 's position . |
| 23 | The sink he had just cleaned was stained badly . |
| 24 | One of the best stories I recall was related by Norman Willis , the general secretary of the TUC , who once had the enlightening experience of watching a leaflet he had just delivered catch fire . |
| 25 | He found it difficult to reconcile the opulence he had just witnessed with the poverty of some of the surrounding districts . |
| 26 | But the face of the new usherette he had just engaged to replace her rapped his conscience like a dentist 's probe on a decayed tooth . |
| 27 | The news he had just imparted had had the effect he had expected . |
| 28 | Then he stood up and strode from the room , and she all but collapsed into the chair he 'd just vacated , feeling as though she 'd been battered by a storm at sea . |
| 29 | A bespectacled , smartly dressed man was struggling to open the front passenger door of his parked car , while clutching a large paper bag of purchases from the all-night drug store he had just left . |
| 30 | So he turned round the second he did , and made it look as though he was waiting for the woman he 'd just tried to kill — when they were walking along together … |