Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] have [adv] just " in BNC.

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1 I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated .
2 ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’
3 He 'd spoken so quietly , his face against the top of her head , that she 'd only just heard his words .
4 ‘ Down To Earth ’ will prove that she has not only mastered here medium , but that she has only just begun .
5 ‘ However , I see that you 've only just got up . ’
6 ‘ It may interest you to learn , oh Wise and Wonderful One , ’ said Cassie tartly , ‘ that we 've only just got rid of a woman Prime Minister .
7 or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it .
8 Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’
9 CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade .
10 There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading .
11 MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself .
12 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 . "
13 With intelligent programming , the computer should have been able to recognise either that this particular customer needed an overdraft or that he has probably just become redundant and that mortgage repayment might soon present a problem .
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