Example sentences of "[conj] had only just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group found themselves part of a movement called ‘ Shambling ’ , which was largely a reaction to the po-faced stance of goth that had only just entered its coffin . |
| 2 | We allowed our gaze to wander south until it lighted upon the bulk of Ancohuma 's eastern slopes , a face we knew nothing of on a mountain that had only just entered our lives . |
| 3 | Leaving his cry wafting after him , he disappeared in pursuit of a housemaid who was busily removing all the clean antimacassars that had only just been placed lovingly in position for the oil-bedaubed heads that would shortly be resting on them . |
| 4 | That Fran had no intention of doing just that had only just struck him , and he did n't like it one little bit ! |
| 5 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 6 | She still had n't spoken and had only just , so she thought , heard his name . |
| 7 | The court was told that all three were now grown up , with the girls 27 and 31 , and had only just revealed their ordeal at the hands of their stepfather . |
| 8 | He was nineteen years of age and had only just qualified to receive the King 's shilling ; but now he was a couple of inches taller , shaved and had even come near to losing his virginity . |
| 9 | It was as if she had needed to do this for such a long , long time , but had only just realised it . |