Example sentences of "[noun] have only just [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The election campaign has only just got under way , and Mr Le Pen may yet reclaim the limelight . |
| 2 | One was the common ostrich ; the other was the smaller ‘ petise ’ version that Darwin had only just snatched from the jaws of his shipmates . |
| 3 | Anthea has only just stepped into Yvette 's shoes but has already made pals with the other presenters and , course , Bonnie the dog . |
| 4 | The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier . |
| 5 | Higher education had only just resumed with some semblance of normality after the disruption of the previous decade . |
| 6 | Seventh in the English Schools final last year , the 17-year-old Morpeth Harrier has only just recovered from a dislocated hip . |
| 7 | It was sparsely furnished , for Anne had only just come into her inheritance , but it was newly decorated and clean . |
| 8 | Who knows , ’ he pretended that the thought had only just occurred to him , ‘ they might be attacked by bandits . ’ |
| 9 | I have n't been to a gym in ages , ’ Vitor said , and frowned as though the omission had only just occurred to him . |
| 10 | Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Pronethalol had only just come into clinical use when it was found to produce tumours in mice . |
| 13 | ‘ There could be a way to save him , ’ he said , as if the possibility had only just occurred to him . |
| 14 | It is prudent to check each company 's rules before you commit yourself ‘ These contracts have only just started in Britain and so far people have treated them cautiously , ’ says Peter Hargreaves of adviser Hargreaves Lansdowne . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Such borrowing from European civilization had only just begun in 1880 . |