Example sentences of "have [adv] just [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
2 | Ms Bhutto has only just survived a vote of no confidence by the opposition , when her slim and wavering majority was cut by half , partially because of the defection of four of the tribal members to opposition benches . |
3 | THE Queen 's cousin , Sir Angus Oglivy , has bought himself an early Christmas present — a Zike , the invention launched last summer by Sir Clive Sinclair but which has only just reached the shops at £499 . |
4 | The program has only just reached the material development loop , but it is nonetheless quite useful to look at its progress and comment on the development so far . |
5 | The Department of Interior has only just begun a two year study to streamline the fiendishly complex sets of planning rules that govern new mining projects . |
6 | Nancarrow , who has only just finished a ban for venting his anger by making an obscene gesture to a referee during the British Open , was reported to the tournament director for abusing match officials , his opponent , and the court . |
7 | Somebody , somewhere , has probably just telephoned an old friend by mistake . |
8 | Opera North has also just unveiled a new Britten staging : Peter Grimes , directed by Ronald Eyre and with John Treleaven as the visionary Suffolk fisherman . |
9 | He has also just achieved a Brown Belt in Judo . |
10 | Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland . |
11 | Well , Gain has reportedly just snared a porting pact with IBM to move its software to the RS/6000 and once it 's ready IBM will apparently co-market the stuff worldwide especially to users with mission critical distributed applications . |
12 | I 'd only just bought the Granada . |
13 | the dining chairs , I 've had everything out at least I have n't cleaned the windows but , I was half way through , well I was almost finished , I 'd just just done the stairs though and Bernie came ! |
14 | Similarly they will have only just negotiated the entry of four new members — Austria , Sweden , Finland and Norway . |
15 | Stevie Wonder wrote , sang and played arguably his finest albums , ‘ Talking Book ’ and ‘ Innervisions ’ , having only just broken the twenty threshold . |
16 | Having only just mastered the art of walking ( let alone flying ! ) |
17 | Mike , you 've only just made a come back really this year on the England side and everything . |
18 | Now independent taxation , as you may know , came in , we 're now in ninety three four , I 've only just altered the heading because very little else has changed and I 'm a lazy so and so I ca n't rewrite it just for the heading . |
19 | But no , but I ca n't could n't afford to be rude to him , I 've only just joined the choir . |
20 | Right , we we 're not doing the minutes for the tenth of January because you 've only just got the copies this evening so that 's being erm , we 'll go through those at the next meeting . |
21 | But we 've only just got the bubbles in and the soap 'll dissolve them . |
22 | I 've only just started the damn thing really . |
23 | No I 've only just put the , it 's just cos of the microphone 's on too much er I 've only just put the batteries in , some new batteries in . |
24 | No I 've only just put the , it 's just cos of the microphone 's on too much er I 've only just put the batteries in , some new batteries in . |
25 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |
26 | But even as he at last turned and , more like a conjurer than ever , whipped the cloth from the object on the table , which turned out to be a saucepan containing water scooped from the shattered font , the first heavy drops began to drum on the altar table ; and while the Padre was saying : " Hope Mary Ellen , I baptize thee In the name of the Father and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , Amen , " the Collector , forgetting that he had only just renounced an interest in the vain pomp and glory of the world , thought crossly : " That wo n't do the Louis XVI table any good at all . " |
27 | He then visited Quebec Barracks and saw the new brick buildings there which had only just replaced the old South African war huts . |
28 | But now the meal was over , and David had only just made an appearance . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | It seemed to D'Arcy that his head had only just hit the cushion on the settee in Victor 's flat when he was shaken awake . |