Example sentences of "[pers pn] have only just " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 2 | Especially since I 'd only just arrived back from Paris . ’ |
| 3 | After all , I 'd only just stopped doing my paper-round and I heard them talking about headlong stuff I never knew about before : abortions , heroin , Sylvia Plath , prostitution . |
| 4 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 5 | I 'd only just bought the Granada . |
| 6 | Well I 'd only just brought it in the kitchen actually . |
| 7 | and I mean I then I 'd only just had my operation an and to actually drive for longer than about twenty minute journeys was killing so |
| 8 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 9 | I had only just joined the school as my family had recently moved into the area . |
| 10 | I felt a momentary regret for all the waves I would never ride , when I had only just learned how . |
| 11 | I had only just finished describing the happiness of endless life , when I realized that my friend 's shoulders were shaking and tears of laughter were running down his face . |
| 12 | This was the moment for me to escape , but I had only just left the sitting-room and reached the hall , when Mr Rochester appeared through another door . |
| 13 | To interrupt at such a time would be selfish and babyish — which I had only just promised Heavenly Father not to be . |
| 14 | I stayed up most of the night , totally engrossed in the book only to find that David Wood had published what I had only just begun to suspect , a definite pattern underlying the whole region of Rennes-le-Chateau . |
| 15 | I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated . |
| 16 | I had only just noticed her — so I must have been taking things seriously — but she was worth waiting to be polite to . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've only just got in , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I 've only just got up — I 'm not feeling too brilliant . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've only just found it myself . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've only just been elected , dammit , ’ barks one . |
| 21 | After two years of going to Kenya I 've only just realised what it is you 're supposed to do — walk ! |
| 22 | Indeed , once the mother of one of Greg 's friends rang up about some arrangements the boys had made together , and she said , ‘ Oh , by the way , I 've only just learned that Greg 's sister whom Richard talks about is adopted . ’ |
| 23 | I 've had my rib transfer carriage about nine years and I 've only just discovered that ! |
| 24 | ‘ But I 've only just got here , ’ I said weakly . |
| 25 | Mum looked pleadingly at him but not a word was said between any of us until he was opening the door to leave and Dad said , ‘ Bloody good riddance , an' do n't bang the door when you go , I 've only just mended it . ’ |
| 26 | The 59-year-old , who has been on a hectic 10,000-mile round trip to Buenos Aires , said : ‘ I 've only just woken up and my only plans now are to go to bed . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I 've only just thought of it . ’ |
| 28 | This is in today 's edition , I 've only just seen it . ’ |
| 29 | I 've only just come back down . ’ |
| 30 | I 've only just got here , and I really have n't heard anything more than I told you . |