Example sentences of "had just said " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he had just said , he did genuinely want to help . |
| 2 | What Razumikhm had just said about Porfiry also disturbed him . |
| 3 | I could hardly believe what Taff had just said . |
| 4 | ‘ That probably sounds pompous , ’ adds Laing apologetically , reflecting on what he had just said . |
| 5 | ‘ Nice to meet you , Chief Inspector , ’ he said with automatic politeness , then considered what he had just said , decided it was beyond explanation and led them upstairs to his office . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't blame you : ’ Bella had just said that . |
| 7 | Even in the turmoil of his own thoughts , Gazzer found himself registering surprise at what she had just said : ‘ She knows ! ’ he thought . |
| 8 | His forehead tingled and he put his back against the door , trying to locate himself , trying to absorb what she had just said . |
| 9 | Ryan had just said : ‘ O.K ’ you can bring the ladder out now , ’ when all the lights went out . |
| 10 | But something nagged at her about what he had just said . |
| 11 | Isobel was laughing at something Edouard had just said ; she was wearing a white linen suit , her green eyes sparkled . |
| 12 | Her father looked at her and nodded , which was a sure sign that he disagreed with what she had just said . |
| 13 | Then the comrade had repeated , word for word , what he had just said . |
| 14 | Wilson had just said |
| 15 | He could make a film with Nastassia Kinski , the most beautiful woman in the world ( Time had just said so , on its cover ) and she left him a slim book of Baudelaire , with some verses underlined . |
| 16 | Maximilian , wanting to make sure he had got things right , repeated in German to Willoughby what Edward had just said , and Willoughby , who spoke German , nodded wanly . |
| 17 | I could tell by her voice that she had just said something which she believed , and I was surprised , because I had somehow thought her too clever really to believe anything . |
| 18 | She had a little pug-like dog who wore an expression of perpetual outrage , its eyes bulging as though someone had just said something unforgivable to it . |
| 19 | She found the beating heat oppressive and wanted to ponder the implications of what Christine had just said . |
| 20 | The superintendent asked if he really meant what he had just said . |
| 21 | He had just said , ‘ I have come to the point where I do not think of colour . |
| 22 | Funnily enough , though , and despite everything she had just said , she did n't want to eat dinner on her own . |
| 23 | His words rang in the clear air and she could feel her head swimming from the enormity of what he had just said . |
| 24 | With a gesture of annoyance at something Paul Lexington had just said , Bobby Anscombe stood up and banged his hand down on the table . |
| 25 | For some reason she found what she had just said enormously funny , and exploded into the phone with a fruity laugh before putting down her receiver . |
| 26 | It was Ryan who was trying to get permission — and yet Gwen had just said … and had n't Leo run out of the shop after Ryan ? |
| 27 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 28 | What he had just said , if that was what he had said , was as frightening as anything else that had happened since my dad died . |
| 29 | Of course , the irony of what he had just said escaped him , but it caused Shiona to smile a bitter inner smile . |
| 30 | He was acting — he had just said so . |