Example sentences of "have [adv] just [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most European countries insider dealing has only just become an offence , thanks to a 1989 European Community directive . |
| 2 | Ms Bhutto has only just survived a vote of no confidence by the opposition , when her slim and wavering majority was cut by half , partially because of the defection of four of the tribal members to opposition benches . |
| 3 | The program has only just reached the material development loop , but it is nonetheless quite useful to look at its progress and comment on the development so far . |
| 4 | Nancarrow , who has only just finished a ban for venting his anger by making an obscene gesture to a referee during the British Open , was reported to the tournament director for abusing match officials , his opponent , and the court . |
| 5 | Airtours THE WORLD IN ITS LAP Rumours of a price war are unlikely to take the wind out of the sails of a tour operator that has not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but increased market share as well |
| 6 | He has not just found a role for himself , which was something he had agonized over for years , but has used his position to lead an assault on the ills of modern society ; to try to alter people 's basic thinking , not just in an effort to improve their lives , but to persuade them of the need to preserve the planet for future generations . |
| 7 | Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland . |
| 8 | But I do n't understand why she has n't just earned the money and gone off somewhere . |
| 9 | Similarly they will have only just negotiated the entry of four new members — Austria , Sweden , Finland and Norway . |
| 10 | Having only just mastered the art of walking ( let alone flying ! ) |
| 11 | Now independent taxation , as you may know , came in , we 're now in ninety three four , I 've only just altered the heading because very little else has changed and I 'm a lazy so and so I ca n't rewrite it just for the heading . |
| 12 | But no , but I ca n't could n't afford to be rude to him , I 've only just joined the choir . |
| 13 | But even as he at last turned and , more like a conjurer than ever , whipped the cloth from the object on the table , which turned out to be a saucepan containing water scooped from the shattered font , the first heavy drops began to drum on the altar table ; and while the Padre was saying : " Hope Mary Ellen , I baptize thee In the name of the Father and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , Amen , " the Collector , forgetting that he had only just renounced an interest in the vain pomp and glory of the world , thought crossly : " That wo n't do the Louis XVI table any good at all . " |
| 14 | But now the meal was over , and David had only just made an appearance . |
| 15 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 16 | He had been up half the previous night upon a quite different case , and all this night upon this , which had only just become a case , and his , after all . |
| 17 | It seemed to D'Arcy that his head had only just hit the cushion on the settee in Victor 's flat when he was shaken awake . |
| 18 | I had only just joined the school as my family had recently moved into the area . |
| 19 | Cousin and neighbour Nicholas Gutesha , said : ‘ Robert had only just decorated the house as a Christmas treat for his mum . ’ |
| 20 | This was the moment for me to escape , but I had only just left the sitting-room and reached the hall , when Mr Rochester appeared through another door . |
| 21 | If they wished to prevent Labour forming a government , they would have to come to an arrangement with Baldwin , rather than any other Conservative ; and since the Liberals had only just fought an election opposing Baldwin 's policy of Protection , this would be a difficult course for them to take . |
| 22 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |
| 23 | It had not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but actually increased market share . |
| 24 | At Covent Garden , John was joined by Nerina and Heaton from the group of dancers he had worked with at Sadler 's Wells , and he quickly made new friends , including Ray Powell and , especially , Henry Legerton , an Australian who had also just joined the company after dancing for Massine in a play with ballets , based on the novel A Bullet in the Ballet . |
| 25 | It was quite a busy week , going to the concerts and the theatre and visiting friends again , as well as seeing some we had n't managed to see earlier , such as Maria and Mike who 'd just had their second baby , and Robert ( Easting ) and Christine who had also just had a baby . |
| 26 | ( Actually , it was a triple because he had also just won the Canadian Open a few days before . ) |
| 27 | ‘ Proof that Silas really loved me , and that I had n't just become a habit with him . |
| 28 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 29 | He had evidently just eaten a meal , for the remains of it lay in a red handkerchief open on the ground . |
| 30 | On arrival the patrol members find that two men have apparently just crashed a lorry through a fence and swum across the River Spree . |