Example sentences of "had only just [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |