Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] have only just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My son has only just reached his majority , and I understand he is in no immediate financial need . |
| 2 | Lying in the rocks , the stems look like broken necklaces , their individual beads sometimes scattered , sometimes still in loose snaking columns as though their thread had only just snapped . |
| 3 | Then he frowned , as if her words had only just reached him . |
| 4 | ‘ This will rebound on the Government and their difficulties have only just started . ’ |
| 5 | But Liz had never mentioned that Ross was so staggeringly good-looking ; nor had she made any reference to his devastating physical impact , although , to be fair , since both she and her cousin had only just finished taking their final college examinations , they 'd hardly been able to spend any time together before the wedding . |
| 6 | He saw Maud once in the Kurfûrstendamm , eating alone in a cafe and looking a little desolate , with a stack of coins already piled beside her plate although her meal had only just come . |
| 7 | His parents had only just begun to give him and his sibling the lore of their territory , telling him the names of eagles who had nested there before . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His passion has only just stopped short of writing a structural critique of the civil engineering faults at Valhalla . |