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

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1 And Rodger has only just come back from three weeks ' rehabilitation at Lilleshall .
2 In the sciences of course the possibility of pure objectivity has been a convenient and fruitful assumption , which has only recently run up against its limitations .
3 The mainland economy has only recently opened up with the growth of tourism : nor has it opened up to women and men ( or indeed Black and white workers ) in an exactly similar way .
4 Especially since I 'd only just arrived back from Paris . ’
5 He 'd only just got right from flu .
6 So , anyway , erm he went to see this lad , then he says oh I 've only just rang up about these speakers , they 're eleven pound odd each .
7 We 've only just met again after being apart for years .
8 It 's staying on the dual carriageway , well I went round Steven 's to see if he thought to tow it round mine cos the already been on my back once oh no he said I 've only just walked in from work I 'm having my tea then I 'm going to bed he said , there 's no way I 'm towing no motor for the he said , just f off !
9 You 've only just got out of bed ,
10 ‘ I 've only just got out of bed . ’
11 ‘ I 've only just got out of it !
12 I 've only just got back to the UK ’ He looked around him .
13 ‘ I 've only just got back to my room and picked up your message .
14 I have n't had time to think yet , I 've only just got back in on the phone and sorting out the printer .
15 Hello er , I 'm phoning on behalf of Mrs Ada er she 's got to come in for a scan on the fourth of February , nine o'clock , now we 've only just got back from the hospital today , cos she oh , she had to go today for one , yeah , and we 've just
16 I mean I 've only just come out of hospital and as it is I 'm still fairly well Macked with it .
17 ‘ I have been scribbling since infancy , though I 've only now buckled down to it .
18 Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield .
19 ‘ We destroyed him because he betrayed The Law ! ’ said Hasan , in the kind of voice that suggested Hasan the Second , the Twenty-third Imam of the Nizari Ismailis , had only just popped out of the room for a cup of coffee instead of being stabbed nearly a thousand years ago .
20 It was disappointing to discover on asking if I could have them to find that the museum had only just got round to registering what appeared to be Audubon 's proofs .
21 He did not think there would be any point in Sara travelling to Wellingham that evening , especially as she had only just got back from abroad .
22 Both Gary Smith and Barry Dowdeswell , chief executive of the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle 's oldest teaching hospital , agreed that the acute hospitals had only just woken up to community care .
23 Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude .
24 But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’
25 The windows have heavy moulded oak mullions mortised into massive oak sills and lintels , a reminder that in the heyday of the Lugg valley , medieval stone mullions had only recently gone out of fashion .
26 In the past , he had only ever spoken well of his mother , when he spoke of her at all .
27 I have only just flown in from Paris and I am very tired . ’
28 Agfa 's Rodinal falls into this category , although at 100 years old it is positively ancient and not modern , but it nevertheless has many qualities that other modern developers have only just caught up with .
29 Of course , we have only just got back from our honeymoon . ’
30 We have only really looked closely at the local analysis of one particular kind of homoclinic orbit ( in section 6.4 ) ; such local analyses are interesting in their own right , but are relatively well known { 37 } .
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