Example sentences of "[verb] only just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Er weddin' dress 'ad been run up for 'er by Mrs Stuart that 'ad only just give up 'er job workin' for a dressmaker in Shoreditch . |
| 2 | Excusably perhaps , neither Edmund Wilson nor any one else could understand , or could credit , the scale on which Pound was working : 120 cantos , and by the time Pound died in 1972 , the poem had fallen only just short of that . |
| 3 | Only I want Only just get me a tin of hair lacquer , normal hold for tinted that 's all I want . |
| 4 | Glasnost had come only just in time to prevent all the interesting , intelligent spirits from vanishing . |
| 5 | Nancarrow , who has only just finished a ban for venting his anger by making an obscene gesture to a referee during the British Open , was reported to the tournament director for abusing match officials , his opponent , and the court . |
| 6 | But the story has only just begun . |
| 7 | Strongly independent all his life , John Granger did n't let blindness change his lifestyle , and although now in his nineties has only just moved into a sheltered flat in Oxford . |
| 8 | Ms Bhutto has only just survived a vote of no confidence by the opposition , when her slim and wavering majority was cut by half , partially because of the defection of four of the tribal members to opposition benches . |
| 9 | It has only just begun . |
| 10 | The municipal-bond market has only just got over the jolt it received from federal tax changes in 1986 that removed tax breaks for some large buyers of new issues , notably banks and insurance companies . |
| 11 | ‘ Down To Earth ’ will prove that she has not only mastered here medium , but that she has only just begun . |
| 12 | Now twenty-four , she came to London originally from Gloucestershire , and has only just moved ‘ south of the river ’ to start a new job . |
| 13 | However , IBM has only just started manufacturing OS/2 2.0 for British distribution . |
| 14 | Paco has only just begun to speak openly of reincarnation : ‘ The time has come when the Seventh Sea is going to open . ’ |
| 15 | As the song says , it has only just begun . |
| 16 | Although the idea of WCY is over a year old and the year is now a month old , Britain has only just announced its six-man committee to represent the country 's interests . |
| 17 | The Department of Interior has only just begun a two year study to streamline the fiendishly complex sets of planning rules that govern new mining projects . |
| 18 | Looking for a plausible mechanism is slightly easier , but the search has only just begun , and there are few clues to go on at present . |
| 19 | Instead , a somewhat more benign Major nightmare has only just begun . |
| 20 | Its internal political development has only just begun . |
| 21 | The suggestion of a silver thread among the dark men in green makes Gus appear a distinguished elder statesmen , far too distinguished-looking for a man who has only just reached 29 . |
| 22 | Miss Driver , 22 , has appeared in the television series Lovejoy , House of Eliott , Casualty and Kinsey , and has only just returned from Budapest — filming a Maigret adventure . |
| 23 | THE Queen 's cousin , Sir Angus Oglivy , has bought himself an early Christmas present — a Zike , the invention launched last summer by Sir Clive Sinclair but which has only just reached the shops at £499 . |
| 24 | BRITAIN 'S ‘ greenest ’ car is the Subaru Vivio 660cc which has only just gone on sale . |
| 25 | The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier . |
| 26 | But the Scot has only just recovered from a mystery virus and insists he needs to be involved for some 10 matches before he is back to his best . |
| 27 | And Rodger has only just come back from three weeks ' rehabilitation at Lilleshall . |
| 28 | She is a glamorous 40-year-old , he has only just left school . |
| 29 | Anthea has only just stepped into Yvette 's shoes but has already made pals with the other presenters and , course , Bonnie the dog . |
| 30 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |