Example sentences of "had just started " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had just started her act in the southern city of Adana when Haci Tepe , a member of the ‘ Grey Wolves ’ , an extremist right-wing paramilitary group , demanded she sing an old nationalist song . |
| 2 | The Allied guns had just started up as I entered the orchard . |
| 3 | I had just started working as a landscape architect for a water authority , and my duties were to involve planting trees around reservoirs and new office buildings . |
| 4 | His architectural predilections were evident at the Royal Academy in 1850 , with compositions called Palladiana and the Works of Vignola and , at the time of his appointment as an assessor , he had just started his best known work , the Italianate Clothworkers ' Hall in the City of London ( 1856–60 ) . |
| 5 | We had just started our first lectures , when apart from helping to prepare the Sulphonamide paper I was given a weekend off to visit City Temple friends who had started a Community House at Highbury New Park . |
| 6 | It was happening in Liverpool , where giggly Karen had just started at the local secondary mod , and in London , where Dennis Parsons was fast learning that the prime number is number one , and where Liza was studying art at the Slade . |
| 7 | She had just started out on her career as a free-lance photographer , with nothing but a little talent , a lot of determination and the best camera money could buy to help her make it . |
| 8 | Adam had only picked the car up three days earlier from his boss at the Congleton , Cheshire , firm where he had just started work . |
| 9 | At 23 , Graham , from Leytonstone , east London , had just started in cricket and did not consider it his job . |
| 10 | The rains had just started . |
| 11 | The shares had just started to recover on faint hopes of a busy festive season . |
| 12 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 13 | The teacher invited us round to his cottage one evening for dinner and to talk about releasing owls into the wild , which we had just started doing around that time ( I 'll tell you more about that later ) . |
| 14 | I was still in the middle of training Dawn and she had just started to fly free . |
| 15 | The crowd had just started to thin out , and there was a disgruntled note in the talk of those who were sticking it out . |
| 16 | In the evening I sat by my fire , listening to the wind blowing outside , and had just started reading when I heard a noise . |
| 17 | At a hospital in Manchester , the midwives had just started a Teenage Parent Club . |
| 18 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |
| 19 | The event had just started when a woman screamed . |
| 20 | She knew what he was looking at — the pile of birthday cards on the kitchen table , and the letter that she had just started to rip open when he had first thumped on her door . |
| 21 | That had just started screening as part of the ITV Autumn Season and so suddenly George Birkitt was a familiar name . |
| 22 | The London Film Co-Op had just started too , and for those too tired , smashed out , or bored for the music or perhaps with an interest in America in grainy black and white there were movies like Kenneth Anger 's Scorpio Rising , and Towers Open Fire . |
| 23 | The lashing rain had just started and as she spoke a great roll of thunder seemed to shake the house . |
| 24 | The hum of conversation was interrupted by Richard Ryder , who called for silence for the Prime Minister , and John Major had just started a short speech of thanks to their host , not only for his hospitality , but also for his creativity , when there was a thunderous noise of shouting and breaking glass outside . |
| 25 | ‘ The Liver Birds had just started on television , ’ recalled Allen , ‘ and I remember reading a bit in the paper saying there were very few situation comedies written for women , with women in the lead roles . |
| 26 | She had just started to reply when the phone rang , cutting through her words . |
| 27 | The boy had just started work when a raid took place at the newsagents where he worked . |
| 28 | Ben , who 's fifteen , had just started work at Stars Newsagents when he was approached by the gunman . |