Example sentences of "his [noun pl] have just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many gins later , his guests had just come to the end of the petits fours when Wullie Robertson turned up , forcing his way into La Noblesse , looking like the wrath of God , or the son of some Pictish chieftain , and demanding , ‘ Hyacinth ! |
| 2 | The price of oil was tumbling again , one of his most reliable brokers on Wall Street had just been arrested for insider dealing , the acquisition of a highly prestigious London hotel had been held up by a query as to who actually owned it and , back home , one of his sisters had just committed suicide , causing a tremor of scandal throughout the country . |
| 3 | His holidays had just begun , and it suited Juliet 's book to let Patrick have him . |
| 4 | He recently ate a piece of cheese when his hands had just touched his shoes — and I later found out he had stood in some dog dirt . |
| 5 | Ian Franchi , of Britain 's Open University , and his colleagues have just spent three weeks on crampons and skidoos , combing the ice sheet for these itinerant boulders . |