Example sentences of "what he had just [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 What he had just done was sentence her to another day of hell .
2 He could not believe what he had just lived through .
3 ‘ That probably sounds pompous , ’ adds Laing apologetically , reflecting on what he had just said .
4 ‘ Nice to meet you , Chief Inspector , ’ he said with automatic politeness , then considered what he had just said , decided it was beyond explanation and led them upstairs to his office .
5 But something nagged at her about what he had just said .
6 Then the comrade had repeated , word for word , what he had just said .
7 The superintendent asked if he really meant what he had just said .
8 His words rang in the clear air and she could feel her head swimming from the enormity of what he had just said .
9 What he had just said , if that was what he had said , was as frightening as anything else that had happened since my dad died .
10 Of course , the irony of what he had just said escaped him , but it caused Shiona to smile a bitter inner smile .
11 What he had just said hit her like a douche of cold water , and instantly Leith , while wanting to hammer the living daylights out of him , — although still forgetful of her tenuous job position — was otherwise working on full brain power .
12 Her heart was acting so erratically that she could hardly analyse what he had just said .
13 Got out paper and pencil to try and think through the implications of what he had just seen , then gave up and started off home .
14 When he took the ale into the warm farmhouse living room and saw everyone standing around the crackling log fire with food and drinks in their hands , he thought again of what he had just seen through the kitchen window .
15 He did n't really believe it , all the time he was being dragged through near-empty streets which were no longer silent , but filled with curious brawls , or outbursts of squealing or , what he had just heard , the sound of terrified retching .
16 Nothing would be quite the same after what he had just heard .
17 He was not consciously watching , but turning over in his mind what he had just heard , so that he was surprised to find the little brunette from the office standing at his elbow .
18 On hearing a recording of a sentence that was " JC but not quite the JC extreme " ( Sutcliffe 1982a : 124 ) he offered to tell a story in a language that was " more Jamaican " than what he had just heard .
19 Quickly he told Dalziel what he had just learned from Antony and of the train of thought this had started in his mind .
20 Barney appeared to be mulling over what he had just learned ; several times he looked searchingly at Melissa across the table .
21 He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while .
22 When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue .
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