Example sentences of "be only just [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some employers are only just getting round to formalising recruitment and retention policies - and all that goes with them — it may be that you are one step ahead of them in attempting to update yourself appropriately . |
| 2 | Similarly , some investors put environmental concerns uppermost on their list while others are only just waking up to green concerns . |
| 3 | a point at the moment , with the life of the county , I think that we should great potential and great opportunity available to us , and I do hope that all members will er , and I 've written to all our members of parliament with a copy of my letter , er , I had I 've had er , I know it 's been the Christmas period , and that they 're only just getting back into things , and there 's been a lot of diversions at length , and I do have a letter from , er I heard from er , Edward , er , Mr Edward Lee , and and , I still have to hear it from er , the rest of them . |
| 4 | knew , knew the minute walking , walking in , that they were only just coming in just to see |
| 5 | ’ Oh , it 's only just blown up . |
| 6 | ‘ Miss Hardbroom , I was the frog in the potion laboratory , the one you found in the corridor , and the potion I took is only just wearing off , that 's why I have n't any feet at the moment . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's where you have a body which is only just ticking over , but where the brain survives . |
| 8 | And with the aid of the wind got an awful lot of distance on that kick and almost earned side a corner , it was only just kept in by his opposite number Tommy Wright . |
| 9 | Royal Ballerina was only just touched off by Intrepidity in the English Oaks and then was runner-up again in the Irish version when Weymss Bright triumphed . |
| 10 | Royal Ballerina was only just touched off by Intrepidity in the English Oaks and then was runner-up again in the Irish version when Weymss Bright triumphed . |
| 11 | Oh well he was only just finding out what the rules were . |