Example sentences of "[vb past] just started " in BNC.

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1 At the time he 'd just started City Lights , a new shop in Covent Garden .
2 Something for the weekend , sir , she said , stopping him just as he was about to leave with another young man — you see she 'd noticed that they had n't talked before going off together , they 'd just started kissing and were going to drag each other home without discussing anything , and they were young , really young , eighteen .
3 I did water-colours mostly but I 'd just started painting in oils and felt I had quite a talent for it , but they were n't very encouraging …
4 I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away !
5 ‘ They 'd just started walking down a narrow street outside the club when all suddenly a taxi hit Michael and knocked him down .
6 In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang .
7 It was because she 'd just started to sell them at the shop .
8 Because er my mother was fair and she must have carried it or something and then I I 'd just started I think a week of two or three weeks and my sister got it and the boys never got it .
9 We 'd just started talking about all that when the rowboat tipped over .
10 And then she recalled the time when she 'd just started her training , and one of her friends had fallen madly in love with a houseman , a rather conceited young man named Stewart .
11 Over lunch I overheard Bernadette say to Sarah who 'd just started with us then , Ricky 's a bit strange at the moment because he 's just been on a course , but he 'll be better next week .
12 She 'd just started school .
13 who 'd just started working for them and he w he did n't look
14 She had just started her act in the southern city of Adana when Haci Tepe , a member of the ‘ Grey Wolves ’ , an extremist right-wing paramilitary group , demanded she sing an old nationalist song .
15 The Allied guns had just started up as I entered the orchard .
16 I had just started working as a landscape architect for a water authority , and my duties were to involve planting trees around reservoirs and new office buildings .
17 His architectural predilections were evident at the Royal Academy in 1850 , with compositions called Palladiana and the Works of Vignola and , at the time of his appointment as an assessor , he had just started his best known work , the Italianate Clothworkers ' Hall in the City of London ( 1856–60 ) .
18 We had just started our first lectures , when apart from helping to prepare the Sulphonamide paper I was given a weekend off to visit City Temple friends who had started a Community House at Highbury New Park .
19 It was happening in Liverpool , where giggly Karen had just started at the local secondary mod , and in London , where Dennis Parsons was fast learning that the prime number is number one , and where Liza was studying art at the Slade .
20 She had just started out on her career as a free-lance photographer , with nothing but a little talent , a lot of determination and the best camera money could buy to help her make it .
21 Adam had only picked the car up three days earlier from his boss at the Congleton , Cheshire , firm where he had just started work .
22 At 23 , Graham , from Leytonstone , east London , had just started in cricket and did not consider it his job .
23 The rains had just started .
24 The shares had just started to recover on faint hopes of a busy festive season .
25 The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically .
26 The teacher invited us round to his cottage one evening for dinner and to talk about releasing owls into the wild , which we had just started doing around that time ( I 'll tell you more about that later ) .
27 I was still in the middle of training Dawn and she had just started to fly free .
28 The crowd had just started to thin out , and there was a disgruntled note in the talk of those who were sticking it out .
29 In the evening I sat by my fire , listening to the wind blowing outside , and had just started reading when I heard a noise .
30 At a hospital in Manchester , the midwives had just started a Teenage Parent Club .
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