Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] have only 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 . "
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