Example sentences of "have only just [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Seventh in the English Schools final last year , the 17-year-old Morpeth Harrier has only just recovered from a dislocated hip . |
4 | 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 ? |
5 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
6 | One was the common ostrich ; the other was the smaller ‘ petise ’ version that Darwin had only just snatched from the jaws of his shipmates . |
7 | As expected , she found that subjects were very accurate at distinguishing a sentence they had only just heard from similar sentences with semantic or syntactic changes . |
8 | Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old . |
9 | They had only just recovered from dealing with all the correspondence and presents from the wedding ; six days later , when the pregnancy became official , lorry loads of letters , bibs and baby boots rained down upon them . |
10 | He had only just recovered from another bout of serious illness and was still extremely weak . |
11 | Sir Ranulph 's weight had dropped from 14 to 10 stones and he and Dr Stroud , 37 , had only just recovered from the low blood sugar condition hypoglycaemia . |
12 | This special place of the Sun in the Galaxy , if confirmed , certainly alters our picture of even the recent geological history of our planet , since we have only just emerged from a spiral arm . |