Example sentences of "had just [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last arrow slit had just flashed past when a large shadow loomed on the wall in front of her . |
| 2 | They had just played together . |
| 3 | Hordes of grumbly Leeds fans left one place which had just shut up shop . |
| 4 | So we were back before the firebox , exhausted and happy , and Laura had just shut down the kiln , when Edward came round into the yard again . |
| 5 | Reports said a SAM 727 had just touched down at El Dorado international airport when an Air France Boeing 747 came roaring over it and landed ahead on the same runway . |
| 6 | When Edmund had left her she had wandered as far as the orchard , and had just pushed aside the crooked wicker gate to re-enter the garden when she heard the latch of the heavier postern rattle . |
| 7 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 8 | Then Angel vaulted back on to his pony , which had just tottered groggily to its feet , and galloped back to the stables . |
| 9 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |
| 10 | Next to a photograph of John were a few words of text which Chris had just written off the top of his head : |
| 11 | Tamar had just gone upstairs for her needlework when Jim Fairly , the tenant of Paradise Farm , drove down the village with the body under a blanket on a flat cart . |
| 12 | dressing gown and it had just gone straight up and the flame |
| 13 | so I tap on the window , had just gone past and I was just about to go in his room , you know , cos he 's standing there and I just tapped on the window come outside Nick had just walked by and Rick and were talking you know it 's not like the dead of night and everything 's quiet |
| 14 | At half-past nine she rang the police station and was told that DCI Harris had just gone out and was not expected back until after lunch . |
| 15 | Dinah had just gone in with the dagger to smear the sleeping servants with blood . |
| 16 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 17 | For some reason she found what she had just said enormously funny , and exploded into the phone with a fruity laugh before putting down her receiver . |
| 18 | He could make a film with Nastassia Kinski , the most beautiful woman in the world ( Time had just said so , on its cover ) and she left him a slim book of Baudelaire , with some verses underlined . |
| 19 | He was acting — he had just said so . |
| 20 | A second later she was remembering that she , who had once vowed never to call Naylor Massingham ‘ sir ’ , had just done so . |
| 21 | He looked as if he had just stepped straight out of one of those bespoke tailors in Saville Row in London 's West End . |
| 22 | A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower . |
| 23 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 24 | Joseph had just stepped out of his room and was pulling the door closed when Patrick came panting up the stairs . |
| 25 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 26 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 27 | Lucy Lane arrived : in a green frock figured in black , dark hair expertly set , a shoulder bag matching her frock ; she looked as though she had just stepped out of her BMW runabout for a spot of window shopping . |
| 28 | He had just fired up and sat down to rest . |
| 29 | I had just stood up , fully clothed by the doorway , when one of the harmonisers stopped with a snort and a wakeful chomp of his lips . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Gabriel , though he felt as crushed as the thistle she had just stood on . |