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

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1 Adam had only picked the car up three days earlier from his boss at the Congleton , Cheshire , firm where he had just started work .
2 When we said we could not recall the SoS intervening to revise county estimates of population growth downwards ( although he had just intervened to revise Gwynedd 's upwards ) we were told that of course Mr Hunt shares the counties ' desire for growth and expansion .
3 Are you leaving me already ! ’ he said , seeming surprised , although he had just told me to go , ‘ and so coldly ? ’
4 I shone my torch at him and he made a face like he had just chewed a lemon : ‘ I 'm going to have to pull from higher up — I guess it 's the knot . ’
5 ‘ Cameron , ’ he says , like he 's just come to some big decision , and sucks air through his teeth , ‘ you know I do n't think it 's you . ’
6 There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning .
7 If he had just painted a cushion instead ! ’ sighed one viewer , as it was bought in at $140,000 ( £80,459 ) ( est. $25–275,000 ) .
8 And here they were , nearly twenty-odd children , gaping back at him as if he had just asked them to run through the periodic table .
9 He stopped at the foot of the stairs as if he had just escorted her there and was off somewhere else .
10 He cocked his head to one side as if he had just realised something awful .
11 He felt as if he had just run fifty yards , rather quickly .
12 So many times she had felt as if he had just steamrollered his way right over her , refusing to listen to her arguments , just using his overpowering physical and mental strength to get his own way .
13 He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin .
14 He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires .
15 Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp .
16 He looked as if he had just stepped straight out of one of those bespoke tailors in Saville Row in London 's West End .
17 Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day .
18 He was beginning to feel as if he had just switched roller-coasters — from one set of emotional turmoil to another .
19 He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life .
20 There was , anyway , an atmosphere in this shop , an unpleasant feeling , as if he had just walked through a gateway into a world parallel to our own , where huge and unpleasant moral choices are offered , fought over and discussed .
21 He was aware of a slow feeling of triumph , a sense of release as if he had just won some physical competition ; without the fear there would n't have been this strange sense of excitement and content .
22 If he had just left me there I could have died . ’
23 He sat back , breathing deeply , taking in the elegance of the shapes the boy had made , recollecting the startling originality of the boy 's strategies — as if he had just re-invented the game .
24 In deck shoes , casual close-fitting denim Bermudas , and black polo-shirt , his hair tousled as if he 'd just jumped off a boat , he looked very large and male and intimidating .
25 ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , as if he 'd just completed a mental calculation , ‘ that 's quite right .
26 He was a red-faced man with a pitted complexion who always looked exhausted , as if he 'd just completed a marathon .
27 ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery .
28 Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening .
29 Roman dropped his arm from her shoulders , faced her as if he 'd just returned , mentally , from some distant place .
30 Joe appeared , looking as if he 'd just finished knocking the Army into shape , and the Navy as well .
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