Sentence examples for had just complained from inspiring English sources

A Metro-North worker standing by a track entrance said that tourists had just complained to him about the balloon ruining their photographs.

She had just complained about it again when I borrowed a razor from my brother and sneaked away to shave it off before lunch.

IMMIGRATION yielded the worst gaffe of the campaign on April 28th, when a microphone caught Gordon Brown describing as "bigoted" a widow who had just complained to him about it.

But no, she really had just complained that a computer upgrade had inconvenienced her and thousands of other travelers who already had been approved for visas but who hadn't been delivered them on the day they were promised.

"I'm not afraid to bring that up," Pence responded, though he had just been complaining about people who did.

An old man in line asks everyone to chant a religious blessing, and they do - even those who had just been complaining.

Tommy Ton, the street-style photographer, had just been complaining about how he was over it, when he reached into a gift bag and lit up like a kid on Christmas.

One day, Micșunica got home from work and Ion who had just woken up was complaining that he was hungry.

A farmer had just called him complaining of blindness in his dog, and Dr. Papavasiliou promptly suggested that he visit the expedition's headquarters for a clinical check and sample collection; he managed this just a few seconds before being advised by the flight crew that "all mobile phones must be switched off during takeoff".

A second-generation Chrysler dealer, whose lot had just been shut down, complained that the Harvard-educated experts on Wall Street and in Washington knew nothing about automobiles.

On Radio 4's Today, Paul McKeever, chairman of the Police Federation, the rank and file's formidable trade union, has just been complaining – in level-headed terms, too – about the anger and demoralisation of his members after unfair leaks and cuts.