Example sentences of "[Wh det] had only [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then visited Quebec Barracks and saw the new brick buildings there which had only just replaced the old South African war huts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Far from being the ineluctable outcome of intensifying class struggle in Russia , they see the revolution as fortuitous , arising from the coincidence of catastrophic war , abysmal monarchist leadership and liberal ineptitude in a country which had only recently begun to move towards liberal democracy . |
| 4 | Chopra had glimpsed into the mind and understood ; an understanding which had only recently come to him , as his body aged and his life-force drained away . |
| 5 | By providing Japan with the opportunity to save face and make an orderly withdrawal from drift-net fishing , the UN Second Committee bound them into a commitment to cease drift-net operations in the near future — an astonishing achievement for a campaign which had only really gathered momentum 10 months earlier , with the sinking of the Sankichi Maru . |