Chance carried me to the very beach upon which I had discovered Ja's canoe, and a short time later I was scrambling up the steep bank to retrace my steps from the plain of Phutra.
It was with a deep sigh of relief that I saw him gain a higher branch in safety.
At one end is a mighty revolving drill operated by an engine which Perry said generated more power to the cubic inch than any other engine did to the cubic foot.
You might have known," she said, "when I did not run away from you that it was not hate which chained me to you.
The man saw it too, and the look of terror that overspread his face assured me that I need have no further concern as to him, for the fear of certain death was in his look.
Whatever dangers lay hidden in this island jungle, there could be none so fearsome as those which I had just escaped.
He got me to go over the plan again most carefully, and for some reason which was not at the time clear to me insisted upon a very careful description of the apartments and corridors I had just explored.
It had just come a hard rain and was still sprinkling a little.
I reasoned that he had just made an honest mistake in figuring our grades.
Anyway we had just gotten up speed when, way down the road ahead of us, one farmer in a Ford car and another one in a wagon stopped in the road to talk with each other.
How the old woman had learned so much about him he could not tell; but the description she gave of him corresponded exactly with the figure I had just seen.
I followed Adam to the door, and between us we took the white creature from the elephants, and carried her to the chamber we had just left, the women preceding us, Eve with the light, and Mara still carrying the hand.
I had had nothing to do with getting into the world I had just left, and in it I had found myself heir to a large property!
Which was the real--what I now saw, or what I had just ceased to see?
Into this I crept, and, having entered, had just room to turn round.
Looking on in the direction of the sound, I saw a little elderly woman, much taller, however, than the goblins I had just left, seated upon a stone by the side of the path.
The young man looked toward the door through which he had just entered.
Glancing up, he saw the heads of three men peering from the window of the room he had just quitted.
Half way upon the journey he had met a dusty and travel-stained horseman hastening toward the capital city that Peter and his lieutenants had just left.
Half a mile farther this opened into another broad road, and the trail turned hard to the right in the direction of the town, which we had just quitted.
I had just time to blow on my police-whistle, and then I must have fainted, for I knew nothing more until I found the policeman standing over me in the hall.
Holmes paused irresolute, and then he glanced back at the road which we had just traversed.
I could see no way out of the pickle I was in no way so much as to return to the room I had just left.
Tales of the man's father, of his falseness, of his manifold perpetual treacheries, rose before me from all that I had heard and read, and joined on with what I had just experienced of himself.
Was the shock that he had justfelt a warning from the volcano, communicated through a submarine connection between the two islands?
But his mind was now so disturbed by the startling record of experience which he had just read, that he was only conscious of feeling certain impressions--without possessing the capacity to reflect on them.
If I failed to employ in his interests the short interval of life still left to me, could I doubt (after what I had just read) what the end would be?
If he could believe his senses, her face did certainly tell him that he was invisible and inaudible to the woman whom he had just addressed!
It had just occurred to him that he held a card which should trump any trick of Sir Rowland's vindictiveness, and the prospect heartened and comforted him.
Indeed, he had just discovered a hitherto neglected card, which should put an end to this dangerous game.
He had just supped, with but an indifferent appetite, so fevered was he by the events of his landing.
He laid aside the cocked hat and stick which he had just taken up, and said he would have one glass, for good fellowship's sake.
He had just cut a mighty slice from the latter, when the footsteps of somebody entering the room, caused him to raise his head; and he beheld his son.
He said he certainly could have wished to have continued to hold the appointment he had just resigned.
So putting his pipe into his mouth, which he had just lighted,--he contented himself with ordering Trim to read on.
His scarlet coat and golden lace were tarnished with ignoble smoke; flakes of soot had fallen on his bright green shawl—his pride in days of yore—the steam condensed in the tunnel from which we had just emerged, shone upon his hat like rain.
Stupefied with drink, and bewildered with the scene he had just witnessed, he re-entered the tavern he had quitted shortly before.
Miss Pink, deafened by the barking, had just time to say, "What a very ill-behaved dog!
Moody, disheartened by Isabel's silence, made no attempt to set the conversation going; he looked as if he meditated a hasty retreat to the railway station which he had just left.
He had just succeeded in putting the book back again when the door opened once more, and Isabel's aunt entered the room.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had just" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
