Example sentences of "have only just [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | we 've only just started off . |
| 32 | ‘ I 've only just found out something ’ said Mrs H. , a tidy , respectable young woman with a husband in regular work , though with small wages . |
| 33 | I 've only just come back down . ’ |
| 34 | I mean I 've only just come out of hospital and as it is I 'm still fairly well Macked with it . |
| 35 | I 've only just come in . |
| 36 | No I 've only just come in |
| 37 | But I , I 've only just come in , so I 'm well arsed . |
| 38 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 39 | ‘ 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 . |
| 40 | It seemed she had only just drifted off when she was woken by a sharp rap on the door and Nathan 's impatient voice announcing , ‘ Breakfast in five minutes ! ’ |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | He did not think there would be any point in Sara travelling to Wellingham that evening , especially as she had only just got back from abroad . |
| 43 | Both Gary Smith and Barry Dowdeswell , chief executive of the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle 's oldest teaching hospital , agreed that the acute hospitals had only just woken up to community care . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Did I gather he had only just arrived back ? ’ |
| 46 | Cos I thought well the couple had only just walked up there and I thought to myself oh well he might meet up with them , you know . |
| 47 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |
| 48 | 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 . ’ |
| 49 | I have only just flown in from Paris and I am very tired . ’ |
| 50 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 51 | ‘ We have only just found out that we have the opportunity to buy the agency . |
| 52 | Agfa 's Rodinal falls into this category , although at 100 years old it is positively ancient and not modern , but it nevertheless has many qualities that other modern developers have only just caught up with . |
| 53 | I have only just got back . |
| 54 | Of course , we have only just got back from our honeymoon . ’ |
| 55 | She 's only just gone down , after givin' me her life story and what 'appened at her granddad 's funeral when a wheel came off the 'earse . |
| 56 | Ee ee he should n't be able to buy them cos he 's only just gone down ! |
| 57 | Well she 's only just gone back tonight . |
| 58 | It 's only just gone off . |
| 59 | He 's only just got up ! |
| 60 | Well it was if it 's only just come through from the fryer |