Example sentences of "only just [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Was the reality of the situation only just getting through to him ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I have only just flown in from Paris and I am very tired . ’ |
| 6 | Cos mummy only just come down for breakfast . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | We 've only just met again after being apart for years . |
| 11 | ‘ We destroyed him because he betrayed The Law ! ’ said Hasan , in the kind of voice that suggested Hasan the Second , the Twenty-third Imam of the Nizari Ismailis , had only just popped out of the room for a cup of coffee instead of being stabbed nearly a thousand years ago . |
| 12 | I thought you only just got back from you homeymoon … ’ |
| 13 | So , anyway , erm he went to see this lad , then he says oh I 've only just rang up about these speakers , they 're eleven pound odd each . |
| 14 | New Level , track record holder at Sunderland and Brough Park , clocked a respectable 29.19 sec ( -10 ) winning his heat by 1 5 lengths , while Pond Pavarotti only just scraped through in the faster time of 29.15 , beaten 6 9 lengths by another North-East dog , Capricorn Note , which was also trained until recently by Williams . |
| 15 | Especially since I 'd only just arrived back from Paris . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd only just come in from seeing to a sick sow — I 'm a pig farmer ; Mrs Langton here at Broom House knows me well . ’ |
| 17 | Similarly , some investors put environmental concerns uppermost on their list while others are only just waking up to green concerns . |
| 18 | It 's staying on the dual carriageway , well I went round Steven 's to see if he thought to tow it round mine cos the already been on my back once oh no he said I 've only just walked in from work I 'm having my tea then I 'm going to bed he said , there 's no way I 'm towing no motor for the he said , just f off ! |
| 19 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 20 | Well it was if it 's only just come through from the fryer |
| 21 | I mean I 've only just come out of hospital and as it is I 'm still fairly well Macked with it . |
| 22 | But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’ |
| 23 | And Rodger has only just come back from three weeks ' rehabilitation at Lilleshall . |
| 24 | However , the increase in SSA enrolments was 24 per cent , only just keeping up with population growth , whereas in the final matriculation year ( Standard Ten ) , the increase was 327 per cent . |
| 25 | Its door was only a metre high and half a metre wide , so I could only just get inside on my hands and knees . |
| 26 | It was disappointing to discover on asking if I could have them to find that the museum had only just got round to registering what appeared to be Audubon 's proofs . |
| 27 | He 'd only just got right from flu . |
| 28 | I 've only just got back to the UK ’ He looked around him . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've only just got back to my room and picked up your message . |
| 30 | I have n't had time to think yet , I 've only just got back in on the phone and sorting out the printer . |