Sentence examples for had just conducted from inspiring English sources

In a makeshift tent Leonard Bernstein had just conducted the New York Philharmonic in Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" and other works.

The occasion was the 80th birthday of Sir Charles Mackerras, who had just conducted the first night of the revival of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera with a lively panache that belied his years.

Daniel Barenboim, who had just conducted Argerich as soloist with his orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, had abandoned the podium for one of his favourite activities: a piano duet with his colleague and frequent duo partner, Argerich herself.

He once, in the early 1960s, spent the better part of a whole night driving Carlo Maria Giulini – who had just conducted the young Luciano Pavarotti in Rigoletto – around Rome.

Last month the veteran director Zhu Rikun became embroiled in an all-night standoff with security officials in Sichuan Province, who forced him to delete interviews he had just conducted with miners crippled by lung disease.

And in Delaware last week, Christine O'Donnell, a Republican Senate candidate, threatened to sue a radio station if it released a video tape of an interview she had just conducted.

The TV website Digital Spy has just conducted a study of the "deadliest" location in British soaps.

He has just conducted Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" amid the ruins of the World Trade Center.

TRAFFIC, an organisation that monitors the illegal wildlife trade, has just conducted a survey to identify the most important buyers of rhino horn.

Well, here we are: Ben Bernanke is now Master of the Universe Fed chairman, and he has just conducted an experiment — QE2 — in asset purchases.

Barron's has just conducted its Big Money poll; the bulls in its survey predict that the Dow will hit 9,488 by June 2010, the bears 7,596.