Example sentences of "had just [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the immortal phrase that heralds so many climbs , we had just gone for a look . |
| 2 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
| 3 | He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin . |
| 4 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 5 | She wanted to move the conversation along as she would do with any other person she had just met at a cocktail party , to talk of work and why they were there and if they could be of any use to each other . |
| 6 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
| 7 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
| 8 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
| 9 | In 386 Ambrose moved relics he had just discovered in a Milan suburb to one of the new churches he had built to ring the growing city with prestigious sanctuaries ; it was a well thought out act . |
| 10 | By the following weekend , Ned had begun to lose interest in his lover and within two weeks , much to her distress , he began leaving her alone for long periods of time while he chased after a very attractive Border Collie who had just moved into a neighbouring street . |
| 11 | I had just moved into a flat with my boyfriend and I was beginning to feel very guilty . |
| 12 | The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows . |
| 13 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 14 | His view of Ireland , a highly romanticised one , had been initiated by his reading of Heinrich Böll 's Irisches Tagebuch which , coincidentally , I had just read as a way of getting into German again after two decades of neglect . |
| 15 | A MANIAC slashed a teenage girl 's throat with a knife he had just bought at a packed car boot sale . |
| 16 | We had just passed over a gaggle of eighteen-thousand-foot volcanoes , great slag heaps of ash with gaping vents pointed at the clear blue bowl of the heavens , when he finally shifted in his seat and leaned across me to look out of the window , blinking his eyes . |
| 17 | She could hardly follow up the exchange they had just had with a question about his relationship with Puddephat . |
| 18 | He had just qualified as a surgeon . |
| 19 | Iain had just bitten into a cheese sandwich and his mouth was full , so I do n't think she heard him properly . |
| 20 | She had just slipped into a black taffeta skirt and was buttoning the front of her blouse when there was a knock on the door . |
| 21 | GARY Huntingdon , the Lib-Dem 's man in Sedgefield , had just arrived for a spot of canvassing in Chilton when he spotted four attractive women and two young children walking down the street . |
| 22 | There was , anyway , an atmosphere in this shop , an unpleasant feeling , as if he had just walked through a gateway into a world parallel to our own , where huge and unpleasant moral choices are offered , fought over and discussed . |
| 23 | For the tourney I returned to the serving table to serve the knights who had just fought with a drink , and serve the ladies with bread , cheese and fruit . |
| 24 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 25 | He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc . |
| 26 | The company had just reopened following a shutdown after a similar incident in March . |
| 27 | The English couple had just pulled into a motel car park with two friends for a two-week holiday in the Disneyworld resort of Orlando . |
| 28 | Perhaps he was still sleepy , or had just indulged in a stultifying beetle meal . |
| 29 | First it was a little bit of yellow fish for her landlady 's cat — the poor thing was half starved — then it was a bulb for her bedside lamp , and lastly she remembered that a friend of hers had just opened in a play in Manchester and there just might be a review in the evening paper . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes and no , ’ mumbled Hyacinth , to whom the news of the arrest and incarceration of the chairman of the YCs had just come as a surprise . |