Example sentences of "had just begun " in BNC.
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1 | They were not fully developed human beings ; they had just begun . |
2 | The War was over , Rutherford split the atom on 3 January 1919 , and the workers ' war had just begun . |
3 | It had penetrated through the layered chalks on which Troodos sits and had just begun to bring up rock cores from the ophiolite 's fringe . |
4 | As she dragged Susan 's limp form away from the fire , she noticed with one part of her brain that a sheet of paper had just begun to burn . |
5 | Some of its humour happened to remind him of his friend Mike Nichols , who had just begun making a career directing plays on Broadway with the hit Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park and Murray Schisgal 's Luv . |
6 | He and Willie were now in the middle of Exodus and had just begun Grimm 's Fairy Tales . |
7 | Police were given a 15-minute warning by telephone and had just begun to clear the area . |
8 | The sky above the glittering slate roofs was as blue as the curious lilies which had just begun to come out under the dining-room window , trumpet flowers set like the seed-head of a dandelion but as blue as — the sky . |
9 | She had just begun to veil . |
10 | The national six o'clock news had just begun when the blue transit van pulled into one of the numerous lay-bys on the hard shoulder of the southbound ringroad . |
11 | ‘ When he came to see them , Anna and my mother , the first time in London , 1914 , the war had just begun , Anna had some rather good Sauternes on the table . |
12 | As an air-raid had just begun they could not leave and had to remain in an ambience where , as they now acutely realised , they were not wanted and did not belong . |
13 | Carole Ann Ford had just begun a crossing from one side to the other when , without warning , the supports gave way , pitching her over and down to a very rough landing at the foot of ‘ the cliff ’ . |
14 | In the Western calendar a new decade had just begun — it was the right time for a new beginning ! |
15 | Charlotte had just begun to take stock of what needed to be removed from Jackdaw Cottage when Mrs Mentiply arrived , intent on discharging her housekeeping duties to the bitter end . |
16 | She had just begun to worry about the honeymoon , finding an image of Hywel in Benidorm particularly elusive , when she was summoned by the doctor . |
17 | Johnny had just begun to bite her ear . |
18 | Siegfried had just begun to take the stairs three at a time when his brother descended from the landing , knotting his tie with perfect composure . |
19 | And Lucy walked out of his office , and out of the hotel , and into the night where a soft winter rain had just begun to fall . |
20 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
21 | It was now early March and Ramadan had just begun . |
22 | She had just begun to tear it open when there was a loud , heavy knock at the front door . |
23 | Why did this man he had just begun to believe had no interest in him have to have chosen that book among the dozens of others ? |
24 | The baby had just begun sleeping all through the night so had joined his siblings . |
25 | She had just begun to settle into her neat flat , and although it was n't furnished expensively the few pieces she had were chosen with loving care . |
26 | The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement . |
27 | General Zulfikar had just begun saying , ‘ If you permit , sir , I shall map out tonight 's procedures , ’ when his son wet his pants . |
28 | There they had just begun to feel safe again , when they had scented more of the hated man-things lurking among the trees . |
29 | Ninety minutes later they were all back in the saddle and drawing their first covert as if the season had just begun . |
30 | His holidays had just begun , and it suited Juliet 's book to let Patrick have him . |