Example sentences of "had just [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles wondered what new disaster had hit the production , or which of the producer 's dubious deals had just blown up in his face . |
| 2 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 3 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 4 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |
| 5 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
| 6 | It must have been legal , ’ said the Archdeacon , who had just caught up with the conversation . |
| 7 | Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth . |
| 8 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 9 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |