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 . |