Example sentences of "he had just been " in BNC.

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1 He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany .
2 Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first .
3 Ukraine appointed Rear-Adml Boris Kozhin , previously commander of the Crimean naval base , as head of all naval forces in the republic , even though he had just been sacked by Adml Igor Kasatonov , the CIS 's Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , for ‘ inflaming national strife ’ .
4 Like the three kings in the story , O went home another way , feeling that in some way he had just been warned about something .
5 He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ .
6 Just as my tankman , when we had smoked our cigarettes must have begun to realise the horrendous trauma he had just been through — so , upon reaching home and spreading the news — I too began to dwell upon that single notorious word .
7 One day a child came home from Sunday School declaring that he had just been hearing about how Moses crossed the Red Sea with tanks and Bailey bridges .
8 He was so dazed by all he had just been through that he could n't think straight .
9 He had a half-beard and he looked dirty , as if he had just been working with hammers and bricks and wood and chisels .
10 He had just been de-mobbed from the Army , intended to go up to Oxford to work for his Doctorate in the autumn , and was looking for a house for his mother who had recently been divorced .
11 Ken , who although he had just been appointed Bishop , was still a Royal Chaplain , remained beside the bed of the dying King for three days and nights , ‘ watching at proper intervals to suggest pious and proper thoughts and ejaculations on so serious an occasion ’ .
12 A TEENAGER and three of his pals died when he crashed the car he had just been given as a present .
13 The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was also standing as the man behind the desk read the slip of paper he had just been handed .
14 Similarly , in the report of ‘ a sex beast nicknamed ‘ The Acne Kid ’ ’ ( Star ) , who boasted to the victim that he had just been freed from prison and said : ‘ I 've served time for rape before ’ , speculation about this possible link was scotched quickly .
15 He had just been to the Palace to kiss hands as Prime Minister for the second time .
16 Over his face quivered shades of the sniggers he had just been enjoying with his mates .
17 Then , glancing up and seeing her face , unexpectedly got up , as quick and full of energy as he had just been lethargic ( but it was the energy of anger ) and came out with her into the hall , where Philip , frail as a leaf , was standing by the great dark-grey water tank .
18 Commentary : where an offender is dealt with for a breach of a community service order , he must be sentenced ( if the order is revoked ) in a manner in which he could have been sentenced by the court which made the order , if he is in breach of a probation order , the court may sentence the offender as if he had just been convicted of the offence concerned .
19 He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term .
20 In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect .
21 He had sprung to his feet and thrown out his arms and cried , for he had just been doing Archimedes ' Principle at school , " Eureka ! "
22 His superior was baffled , unsure of the validity and import of what he had just been told .
23 Behind him the door of the house whose occupant he had just been interviewing had been dosed with considerable firmness .
24 He had intended to leave them at the station , but the Left Luggage Office , he had just been reminded , closed at 9.30 .
25 Lips tight , fists clenched , eyes narrow , breath held , back straight , stomach in , chest out , shoulders back , Steven Grout stamped away from the depot he had just been fired from , away from their stupid job and those awful people .
26 ‘ Not too good , I 've heard , ’ said Greg , not adding that he had just been grilling the doctor who signed her second husband 's death certificate .
27 In a radio broadcast on 1 October 1936 , the day he was officially invested as Head of State , Franco hinted at how he envisaged the organization of the as yet non-existent state of whose equally non-existent government he had just been made leader .
28 Perhaps he had just been a delivery boy .
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