Example sentences of "have only just [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Planning permission was granted two months ago but the generating company , National Power , has only just decided to go ahead . |
| 2 | If the golden age for Byrd 's motets has only just begun to dawn , then Byrd 's songs are still in their dark ages . |
| 3 | A feminist perspective on , and analysis of , architecture and planning has only just begun to emerge over the last decade . |
| 4 | Paco has only just begun to speak openly of reincarnation : ‘ The time has come when the Seventh Sea is going to open . ’ |
| 5 | Unisys Corp claims to have won some 50% of the world 's open systems transaction processing business , but still only has around 22 Tuxedo customers on its books , including the Union Bank of Switzerland , Eurodollar car rental , La Namur Assurance Co in Belgium and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV ; NCR Corp , it estimates , has some 10 to 15 customers for Top End monitor , while Transarc Corp 's rival Encina has only just started shipping . |
| 6 | However , IBM has only just started manufacturing OS/2 2.0 for British distribution . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | and remembered , I mean when we went to the , get the meat , we were near the shop , we 'd only just got to go down |
| 10 | But it was very difficult for these for young , young couples with the er er men at the front and perhaps they 'd only just got married before the war and it was very hard lines on them . |
| 11 | The great endeavour which Peter Scott and a small group of inspired people began in 1961 may be said to have only just started to have the worldwide impact which will help mankind to learn once again to develop in full harmony with the natural world , but it is already indelibly clear that Peter 's influence and determination has been crucial in creating a force that will not be denied its place of importance on a planet which , in the foreseeable future , may be required to support a human population of double its present size . |
| 12 | He 's obviously been doing that since your pregnancy , yet you 've only just begun to notice how little he confides in you . |
| 13 | She and her husband , Stephen , feel they 've only just begun to grieve , one we barn , where they 'd taken the girls in January last year . |
| 14 | ‘ I know it 's crazy , but I 've only just begun to realise how much I 'm going to miss all this . ’ |
| 15 | Well I shall be in a minute , I 've only just got to go in the kitchen and get it . |
| 16 | ‘ It may interest you to learn , oh Wise and Wonderful One , ’ said Cassie tartly , ‘ that we 've only just got rid of a woman Prime Minister . |
| 17 | I 've only just got rid of the baby . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's actually been available to the public for quite a while , but they 've only just started to do a big push on it , ’ explains Robert . |
| 19 | I 've only just started to cook in a convection oven , ’ Clare said apologetically . |
| 20 | Yeah I know cos I 've only just started recording again look I 'll let you listen to it in a while all right ? wait that long . |
| 21 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 22 | I 've only just finished building the one on the right . |
| 23 | His parents had only just begun to give him and his sibling the lore of their territory , telling him the names of eagles who had nested there before . |
| 24 | ‘ A little , ’ she admitted reluctantly , but it had only just begun to do so , and she suspected that the tension induced by his presence at the end of an unusually demanding day was more responsible than the bump . |
| 25 | Yet the radiant aspect of Chesney Wold as Esther first sees it had only just begun to lose its fascination for the English as the ideal that humbler men might emulate in a reduced form . |
| 26 | Peter had only just begun to go through the night without demanding a feed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They had only just managed to get on the vessel in time . |
| 29 | He was nineteen years of age and had only just qualified to receive the King 's shilling ; but now he was a couple of inches taller , shaved and had even come near to losing his virginity . |
| 30 | If anything , he had only just got wound up . |