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

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1 Strongly independent all his life , John Granger did n't let blindness change his lifestyle , and although now in his nineties has only just moved into a sheltered flat in Oxford .
2 BRITAIN 'S ‘ greenest ’ car is the Subaru Vivio 660cc which has only just gone on sale .
3 Although the speed of the computer does not allow animation comparable to that which can be produced on film , there is no doubt that this facility , which has only just begun to be explored , can give real power to the teacher .
4 For example , Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous has only just begun in the UK whereas Alcoholics Anonymous has been in the UK for over forty years .
5 Anthea has only just stepped into Yvette 's shoes but has already made pals with the other presenters and , course , Bonnie the dog .
6 The hon. Member for Southampton , Test ( Mr. Hill ) has only just ambled into the Chamber .
7 The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier .
8 This bloke here has only just come about fifteen miles up the road .
9 Townsend , who has only just returned to Premiership action for new club Aston Villa , said : ‘ It has been a slight worry but I 'm in no pain and after today 's training I know I 'll definitely play . ’
10 Miss Driver , 22 , has appeared in the television series Lovejoy , House of Eliott , Casualty and Kinsey , and has only just returned from Budapest — filming a Maigret adventure .
11 But the Scot has only just recovered from a mystery virus and insists he needs to be involved for some 10 matches before he is back to his best .
12 Seventh in the English Schools final last year , the 17-year-old Morpeth Harrier has only just recovered from a dislocated hip .
13 The election campaign has only just got under way , and Mr Le Pen may yet reclaim the limelight .
14 The municipal-bond market has only just got over the jolt it received from federal tax changes in 1986 that removed tax breaks for some large buyers of new issues , notably banks and insurance companies .
15 K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour .
16 One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co .
17 and what I was a really impressed with he , he balanced the , the human , what he felt were the human strengths of the school what it felt like you know , what the people were like in it and erm I think that 's made his decision more difficult because he has n't just gone on the ec the academic side of it he looked at the , the all round aspects of it .
18 Joanne , 13 , says simply : ‘ Mum has n't just looked after her own children , she has looked after so many others .
19 we 'll walk down the road at the back and we 'd only just turned round the corner from the Claremont and we found this restaurant and it was , it was an absolutely brilliant chef , really nice restaurant , really high quality and it was was quite reasonable price , it was n't cheap .
20 And she 'd only just gone to the end of the road to phone Ken was working away .
21 So my father did n't know what to do , because he 'd only just started on his own , so he was tight for money as well was n't he .
22 There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading .
23 In a 3- or 4-year programme of studies , and with the broadening elements occupying a minority of time and probably concentrated towards the latter half , graduates will have only just begun on this voyage of critical reflection .
24 er the building er effectively would have only just commenced at that stage
25 After all , they reasoned , if this was 2.30 in Glasgow , they would have only just got to a club , ready for a full night 's dancing and drinking till the almost daylight hour of 5.30am .
26 To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us .
27 She phoned to say that , having only just returned from Chester , it would be around nine before she could get over with it , and would that be all right ?
28 But it does n't give me a bitey-bluesy sound that a valve amp ought to have when just pushed into distortion .
29 We 've only just flipped off the radio when two tons of suede appear round the side of the building .
30 I 've only just read about this old caddie you found murdered .
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