Sentence examples for had just captured from inspiring English sources

The British had just captured Bardia.

And when fighting ended in Europe they had just captured Berchtesgarden, Hitler's mountain retreat.

Brigadier Nanayakkara said the rebels were trying to retake areas that the government forces had just captured.

"The men were then separated from their families and we were forced to follow orders from these men who had just captured the village," she recalls.

The week had appeared to begin well for security forces, who had just captured the Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam, after four months on the run.

Many Syrian Kurds I met were jubilant because their forces had just captured Mount Abdulaziz, a 25-mile long mountain that will protect their enclave from Isis fighters to the south.

"You've just captured my life".

The Prussian army has just captured Rouen.

However, one day, Jim Steele said to me, 'hey, they've just captured a Saudi jihadi.

And some are bits of madness that our political system has been playing with for years, and that the current crisis has just captured, or been captured by — special guest stars in the theatre of the congressional absurd.

With confirmation that ISIS fighters have just captured another military base from the government forces of President Assad, and that Qatar has engineered the release of an American freelance journalist who was being held by a non-ISIS jihadist group, Obama has two formidable challenges to deal with.