Example sentences of "he had just [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had just fired up and sat down to rest . |
| 5 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 6 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 7 | He was not available for comment , however , as he had just flown off to Australia . |
| 8 | He could not believe what he had just lived through . |
| 9 | In 1944 her son , Dr Istvan Csicsery-Rónay , prevailed on the Soviet commander to return the contents , with which he had just made off . |
| 10 | I picked out notes where he had just screwed up totally , but then I went back to the beginning again and realised that the whole song was just shifted . |
| 11 | Lambert , limping badly , wore a French police helmet , and Dangerfield was wiping mud from his eyes : he had just fallen down . |
| 12 | ‘ He had just given up smoking , ’ she said . |
| 13 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 14 | She did not remember anyone inviting Tim , he had just tagged on to them , but she felt it was safer to take him than leave him near Durance in case he made any further blackmail attempts . |
| 15 | He had just picked up a particularly attractive ring , when a girl 's voice said , ‘ That 's not for sale . ’ |
| 16 | And I do n't want you touching anything of mine , ’ she added fiercely , wrenching out of his hand a book he had just picked up . |
| 17 | John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) . |
| 18 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 19 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 20 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 21 | He pointed to the one he had just come out of . |
| 22 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 23 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 24 | He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started . |
| 25 | Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth . |