Example sentences of "i had just [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 2 | I had just stood up , fully clothed by the doorway , when one of the harmonisers stopped with a snort and a wakeful chomp of his lips . |
| 3 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 4 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was in Switzerland on a pre-season tour and I had just missed out on sign ing Dean Saunders , ’ he said . |
| 6 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |
| 7 | Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one . |
| 8 | I had just taken up my position behind the till of the kitchen gadget department and the store had been open only a matter of minutes when my first customer literally ran into view . |
| 9 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 10 | I had just come out of one of my planning meetings and I metaphorically banged the table and said ‘ I know exactly what you should do . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I had just got up , ’ said the cook . |
| 12 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 13 | I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house . |