Example sentences of "have only just [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer in the calendar with a prime week of its own , an event which has only just survived this year through a last minute rescue sponsorship package , will hardly be able to reduce its prize money in 1993 from the $1m it already pays to the Double-Up new minimum of $625,000 , even though it will no longer be guaranteed even one of the top ten ranked or other leading box office players . |
| 2 | The suggestion of a silver thread among the dark men in green makes Gus appear a distinguished elder statesmen , far too distinguished-looking for a man who has only just reached 29 . |
| 3 | His passion has only just stopped short of writing a structural critique of the civil engineering faults at Valhalla . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember who it was now , but they said have you been , have you seen this , have you done that , which she said no she has n't , I think she 'd only just arrived some , some time last week did n't she ? |
| 5 | I 've had my rib transfer carriage about nine years and I 've only just discovered that ! |
| 6 | So put down , I 've only just missed two things out on health , there was the breathing and erm should be standing in for me on all four feet behind but not four it 's quite normal |
| 7 | ‘ Oh no , you 've only just fallen asleep , ’ she was able to tell him . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've only just met these people , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Yep I 've only just done one of those surveys the other week , is there a coupon with it ? |
| 10 | I 've only just done this one . |
| 11 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 12 | I 've only just got used to responding : ‘ Two pounds please , teacher ’ . |
| 13 | It must be in your tray cos I 've only just got that today . |
| 14 | We 've only just started this year ! |
| 15 | ‘ I 've only just had one slug of that . |
| 16 | I would be grateful if at some point Mr you were to deal with er Doctor 's er most recent comments on the Greater Crested Newt , since of course I 've only just had those er more or less on coming into this room , and I have n't had a chance |
| 17 | To interrupt at such a time would be selfish and babyish — which I had only just promised Heavenly Father not to be . |
| 18 | ‘ Joan , when I departed for Ludlow , it was with a heavy heart — for it seemed to me we had only just found each other , ’ Edward told her . |
| 19 | ‘ But it 's only just gone four o'clock ! ’ |
| 20 | He 's only just gone that feller . |