Example sentences of "only just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 2 | I have only just understood that this logic was so . |
| 3 | Higher education had only just resumed with some semblance of normality after the disruption of the previous decade . |
| 4 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 5 | He 's only just lent it to me to use during this week . |
| 6 | Police discovered Carol Clark 's other life last week , but have only just revealed details . |
| 7 | The court was told that all three were now grown up , with the girls 27 and 31 , and had only just revealed their ordeal at the hands of their stepfather . |
| 8 | He then visited Quebec Barracks and saw the new brick buildings there which had only just replaced the old South African war huts . |
| 9 | Although only just elected to the Executive Committee as Galway Area Secretary , Tom is no stranger to ‘ 93 ’ as for 6 years , from 1973 top 1979 , he was an Executive Committee member as Cork District Secretary . |
| 10 | A dong chop nau nau — I have only just eaten |
| 11 | ‘ You see , we 've only just eaten our lessons for today , and it 's made us feel rather sick . ’ |
| 12 | ’ Oh , it 's only just blown up . |
| 13 | Involuntarily the landlord of the Feathers shivered , peering uncertainly up at this late wayfarer , whose peremptory summons on the front door had recalled him to undo the bolts he had only just shot to . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’ |
| 15 | He left Grace and Peggy behind with the intention of travelling for a while in Europe , but he had only just landed in South Africa when Grace realized that she was going to have another child . |
| 16 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The program has only just reached the material development loop , but it is nonetheless quite useful to look at its progress and comment on the development so far . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've only just reached my decision , ’ Adam said softly . |
| 21 | My son has only just reached his majority , and I understand he is in no immediate financial need . |
| 22 | Then he frowned , as if her words had only just reached him . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ The turntable ladder only just fitted into the churchyard by a few inches . |
| 24 | It seemed to D'Arcy that his head had only just hit the cushion on the settee in Victor 's flat when he was shaken awake . |
| 25 | Stevie Wonder wrote , sang and played arguably his finest albums , ‘ Talking Book ’ and ‘ Innervisions ’ , having only just broken the twenty threshold . |
| 26 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | No longer in the calendar with a prime week of its own , an event which has only just survived this year through a last minute rescue sponsorship package , will hardly be able to reduce its prize money in 1993 from the $1m it already pays to the Double-Up new minimum of $625,000 , even though it will no longer be guaranteed even one of the top ten ranked or other leading box office players . |
| 29 | One was the common ostrich ; the other was the smaller ‘ petise ’ version that Darwin had only just snatched from the jaws of his shipmates . |
| 30 | He 'd only just retired , and they 'd built a beautiful bungalow . ’ |