Example sentences of "[pron] have only just [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've only just been elected , dammit , ’ barks one . |
| 2 | Erm , no I do n't know much about it yet , we have n't I 've only just been told about it by a friend who I sit next to on the bus . |
| 3 | For some reason I have n't got to the bottom of yet , I have only just been informed of your arrival . ’ |
| 4 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 5 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 6 | The first one occurred during the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes at the end of 1944 , when Eisenhower ordered preparations for the evacuation of Strasbourg , which had only just been liberated by Leclerc 's Armoured Division . |
| 7 | Charles felt a bit starchy in battle dress which had only just been issued to the TA . |
| 8 | Police are investigating the theft of 30 square metres of turf which had only just been laid at St Patrick 's Roman Catholic Church in Owton Manor Lane , Hartlepool . |
| 9 | Krabbe 's manager Jos Hermens and panel president Wolfgang Schoeppe have refused to comment on the findings of the reports which have only just been completed and were supposed to be kept secret until the final ruling was announced . |
| 10 | Indeed , they are utterances which are interpretations of utterances which have only just been processed by the hearer . |
| 11 | ‘ You look as if you 've only just been let out on parole ! ’ |
| 12 | And if you have only just been inspired to take up the sport , maybe on the back of the Redford film A River Runs Through It , the club will allow a small number of beginners . |
| 13 | A widow who 's only just been allowed home from hospital after suffering a stroke has been robbed as she lay in bed . |
| 14 | Ye they 've only just been put onto a home account . |
| 15 | It so happened that when John approached the manager and his wife they had only just been moved to the pub with the brief to try and improve relations between the pub and the local community . |
| 16 | Mike had a dream the other night that she had a , a little boy , but er , the funny thing was it 'd only just been born but it could talk |
| 17 | It had only just been born but it could talk properly and everything |
| 18 | He was run off his legs the last time and he had only just been paid for the quarter . ’ |
| 19 | Tied up with poll tax , it was done before poll tax was erm it 's only just been announced because there 's been a lot of negotiations going on , but the figure was committed before poll tax came into being — right ? |
| 20 | It 's only just been serviced so I would have had something to say if there 'd been a problem . |
| 21 | Because erm the actual functional group on the end it 's only just it 's only just been moved |
| 22 | We ca n't look into it because it 's only just been given to us . |
| 23 | It 's only just been finished but the plan is to have four people living there — three clients or whatever and one person sponsored by us , probably a member of staff . |
| 24 | But like all the other previous employees , he 's only just been told about the loan : |