Example sentences of "[pron] have only just [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 On an associated matter , I have only just written to Mrs Sharp formally requesting permission to borrow the large Slezer view of Edinburgh from the North currently hanging in the Edinburgh Room .
2 ‘ Forgive me , ’ Legion interrupted , sincerity oozing from each of its voices , ‘ but I have only just arrived in this solar system .
3 Feherty took 40 for the same stretch then declared ‘ I have only just got over influenza and I should not have travelled to Portugal .
4 I apologise for the delay in replying , but I have only just got to the bottom of my ‘ in tray ’ after months of chasing deadlines !
5 This special place of the Sun in the Galaxy , if confirmed , certainly alters our picture of even the recent geological history of our planet , since we have only just emerged from a spiral arm .
6 Dewdrops , on the other hand , exist , not because they are durable , but because they have only just come into existence and have not yet had time to evaporate .
7 Where we are going ( 1700 England ) they have only just got over periodic waves of bubonic plague .
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