Example sentences of "she had just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , ’ she denied numbly , a hectic flush along her cheekbones , because she had just discovered that she also needed a man she could fight with , cross swords with . |
| 2 | Sybil made a faint tutting noise and shuddered , as if she had just discovered an unpleasant insect on one of her flowers . |
| 3 | Some hours after the alleged attack , Sharon McLean ran out of the Peace Gardens in Holt Street , near Wrexham police station , and pretended that she had just discovered the body , the jury was told . |
| 4 | She had just begun to veil . |
| 5 | She had just begun to worry about the honeymoon , finding an image of Hywel in Benidorm particularly elusive , when she was summoned by the doctor . |
| 6 | She had just begun to tear it open when there was a loud , heavy knock at the front door . |
| 7 | She had just begun to settle into her neat flat , and although it was n't furnished expensively the few pieces she had were chosen with loving care . |
| 8 | She tried to keep her tone light , matter-of-fact , but her mother swung round from the sink where she had just begun to prepare vegetables for lunch , and her father lowered his paper and peered over his glasses at her . |
| 9 | How could she spend Roman 's money so lavishly when she had just parted from her lover ? |
| 10 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
| 11 | She must not let that happen again , she must not , and with Dr Neil looking at her so sharply — and why was that ? — she was just able to turn her thoughts away from the unthinkable into whose pit she had just fallen . |
| 12 | She switched on a desk lamp , and quickly scanned what she had just written , murmuring to herself . |
| 13 | While he ate and listened , the telephone rang three times on minor parish business and Flora badgered him to read a pious poem she had just written which began : |
| 14 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 15 | She had just poured the boiling water on the tea and was standing waiting for it to brew when she heard Alex 's footsteps on the stairs and , turning , she saw his tall figure blocking the kitchen door . |
| 16 | She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic . |
| 17 | It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She had just met a small girl who possessed , or so it seemed to her , quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Pondering what she had just heard , Wilson went home , wondering if Mr Browning felt the same distrust of Mrs Eckley as she did . |
| 22 | She had just heard in Helsinki her brother-in-law has been hauled out of the frozen harbour . |
| 23 | Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation . |
| 24 | The servant who passed the story on to the firefighters had been standing nearby taking in all that was being said until a glance from Meredith Putt through the partly open door sent her scuttling upstairs to complete her work , filled with apprehension by what she had just heard . |
| 25 | With an effort , Melissa sifted mentally through all she had just heard . |
| 26 | Rachel stared at her sister in silence , shocked by what she had just heard , not so much by the fact that Paul Mason had been married but because he was as different from David Markham as it was possible for a man to be , and none of them had even suspected what had been happening . |
| 27 | She stood there until the rapturous applause died down and the peacock screen rose from the floor , hiding all behind it , then , her eyes clouded by emotional tears conjured up by the sheer beauty of what she had just witnessed , she turned blindly , colliding with a hard male body . |
| 28 | My mum came in at about 07.15 , holding out my black suit and a white shirt that she had just ironed . |
| 29 | Meeting his eyes , their expression now cool and shuttered , Luce wondered if she had just imagined that blazing look . |
| 30 | She felt as if she were back in a milieu which she understood , that she had an indefinable rapport with this tall , shaggy , rather solitary figure , dressed in jeans and an open-necked shirt and , as she had just observed , running-shoes . |