Example sentences of "had just gone " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 2 | Nan had just gone and Agnes had bolted the door , pulled down the blind over the window . |
| 3 | Tamar had just gone upstairs for her needlework when Jim Fairly , the tenant of Paradise Farm , drove down the village with the body under a blanket on a flat cart . |
| 4 | She had gone to give pregnant niece Dawn Morgan a lift to hospital — and Dawn had just gone into labour . |
| 5 | I had just gone down the road when the bomb went off . |
| 6 | He and his wife had just gone to bed . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 8 | Dinah had just gone in with the dagger to smear the sleeping servants with blood . |
| 9 | On another occasion , Mr Reynolds had just gone to bed when he had the feeling that there was a fire on the site . |
| 10 | I was working for a yarn firm who had just gone into the marketing of coned yarns — unfortunately they did not stay the course . |
| 11 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 12 | Forget , who had just gone through the last of countless body punches from Noah , ( who throughout , worked just as hard to encourage his players as they did to respond to him ) literally ran from his seat , round the net to the far baseline in readiness to serve . |
| 13 | With Black Fury Warner Bros had just gone a little too far by even referring to strikes and labour problems at a time of mounting industrial tension but the popular and critical reception to the movie showed that the company were not wrong to believe that they had the technical ability and the actors to make films whose reality would be appreciated . |
| 14 | In the immortal phrase that heralds so many climbs , we had just gone for a look . |
| 15 | It had just gone six thirty . |
| 16 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 17 | Then we went to see what had happened to the rope round the tree and there was n't anything left , it had just gone . |
| 18 | When we arrived I was very worried but the whistle had just gone and my teacher Mrs Edwards came out to get us and show us where our class room was . |
| 19 | She had just gone to pieces and she had caused it all herself . |
| 20 | They had just gone to their bedroom , leaving friends and relatives at the reception downstairs , when the alarm was raised at 1am . |
| 21 | At half-past nine she rang the police station and was told that DCI Harris had just gone out and was not expected back until after lunch . |
| 22 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 23 | Your mother felt it might make you insecure if you knew Elaine had just gone and left you like that . ’ |
| 24 | It had just gone four that afternoon when she had her answer . |
| 25 | In fact on the day they signed the contracts with Wonderland for the King 's Hall they had just gone to No 1 in the charts with their new album . |
| 26 | Mr Abramson , of Shirley Road , Allerton , said last night : ‘ I had just gone to the off-licence to help my daughter Trudie while her husband went for his tea . |
| 27 | dressing gown and it had just gone straight up and the flame |
| 28 | And er , I walked , I said oh hello er , cos Mike had just gone , he 'd gone and er , I said oh one coffee there for you , he said thanks very much it 's most generous of you . |
| 29 | so I tap on the window , had just gone past and I was just about to go in his room , you know , cos he 's standing there and I just tapped on the window come outside Nick had just walked by and Rick and were talking you know it 's not like the dead of night and everything 's quiet |