Example sentences of "and only just " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 2 | And only just in time . |
| 3 | The result in February 1974 was a Labour manifesto that promised ‘ a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people and their families ’ — and only just stopped short of promising to nationalise the country 's leading 25 companies . |
| 4 | Once , to his own dismay , he almost hit the child out of frustration , and only just curbed himself in time . |
| 5 | Further inland , and only just visible from the southern window was the Old Rectory , set like a Victorian dolls ' house in its large , overgrown garden which , at this distance , looked as neatly green and formal as a municipal park . |
| 6 | In an exhausting , exhilarating fortnight , they moved round the country triumphing gloriously at Cheshire , being demoralized at Cirencester , where they drew against a vastly inferior team , cockahoop at Kirtlington , and nearly coming unstuck at Windsor , where Perdita was sent off for swearing , so Rutshire had to play the last chukka with only three men , and only just won . |
| 7 | He was arrested , charged with possession of cocaine and only just missed serving a jail sentence when the court ordered him to attend a drugs rehabilitation centre . |
| 8 | Just over a quarter of them ( 26 per cent ) had left their last jobs for this reason , and only just over one third ( 35 per cent ) because of redundancy or dismissal . |
| 9 | There is a summary , your proof , your appendices , there 's a letter dated the fourth of February from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust , there is a special statement , and last , and only just received in the last few minutes , there is a supplementary note by Doctor on the Greater Crested Newt and its importance in relation to Skelton Pond . |
| 10 | I was weak and exhausted , and only just beginning to realize what had happened . |
| 11 | The act of love did happen — and only once , and only just — immediately before I took up my new post at Schloss Hartheim , near Linz , in the province of Austria . |
| 12 | Rory leapt back , staggered on legs that had gone half to sleep , and only just scrambled into the broom cupboard and got the door shut before the bedroom door opened . |
| 13 | In this case , Ecgfrith would have succeeded his father almost immediately in early 671 and only just begun his fifteenth year as king when he was slain . |
| 14 | It looked as if they were about to push back their chairs and join her at her table , and only just in time , Cassie remembered that she needed no further complications in an already bewildering and uncontrollable life . |
| 15 | She tried very , very hard not to say ‘ concoined ’ and only just missed . |
| 16 | The operation itself is usually purely formal , and only just stirs up enough dust to make you cough a little , but it is a sign that you belong to the higher or fit-to-be-dusted classes . |
| 17 | The adoral shields are large prominent about twice as long as broad and only just separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 18 | Melody released him reluctantly — and only just in time . |
| 19 | She was carrying a small spear and only just had time to raise it and thrust it at the Scarag . |
| 20 | She thought she heard an owl cry , and the falling shape , black now and only just visible , seemed to sweep suddenly to the left , soaring , then falling , turning a round and white face to glance at her as it vanished into the gloom . |
| 21 | outdoors and only just woken . |
| 22 | After-tax earnings per share fell 30 per cent to 21.87p and only just cover a dividend total held at 20p by a final of 13.4p , but the shares firmed 3p to 458p by the close . |