Example sentences of "have only just [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 's obviously been doing that since your pregnancy , yet you 've only just begun to notice how little he confides in you . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I know it 's crazy , but I 've only just begun to realise how much I 'm going to miss all this . ’ |
| 10 | Well I shall be in a minute , I 've only just got to go in the kitchen and get it . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I 've only just started to cook in a convection oven , ’ Clare said apologetically . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Peter had only just begun to go through the night without demanding a feed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They had only just managed to get on the vessel in time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On this basis , we have only just begun to explore some of the social processes that are associated with teachers ' work . |
| 22 | Laboratory chemists have only just begun to wake up to this change . |
| 23 | Arts groups have only just begun to take on board the fact that they have to be much more proactive if they are to tap the creativity of people who may be confined to their homes or only get out to day centres with help . |
| 24 | However , Will Purser helped me with a few defensive sentences such as , ‘ Please talk slowly , I have only just begun to learn Burmese . ’ |
| 25 | Doctors at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford have only just started to keep a record , but so far they treated six people for barfly injuries . |