Example sentences of "have only just [vb pp] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd only just bought the Granada . |
| 5 | Similarly they will have only just negotiated the entry of four new members — Austria , Sweden , Finland and Norway . |
| 6 | Stevie Wonder wrote , sang and played arguably his finest albums , ‘ Talking Book ’ and ‘ Innervisions ’ , having only just broken the twenty threshold . |
| 7 | Having only just mastered the art of walking ( let alone flying ! ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But no , but I ca n't could n't afford to be rude to him , I 've only just joined the choir . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But we 've only just got the bubbles in and the soap 'll dissolve them . |
| 12 | I 've only just started the damn thing really . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |
| 16 | He then visited Quebec Barracks and saw the new brick buildings there which had only just replaced the old South African war huts . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I had only just joined the school as my family had recently moved into the area . |
| 20 | Cousin and neighbour Nicholas Gutesha , said : ‘ Robert had only just decorated the house as a Christmas treat for his mum . ’ |
| 21 | This was the moment for me to escape , but I had only just left the sitting-room and reached the hall , when Mr Rochester appeared through another door . |
| 22 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |
| 23 | YOU can also sue in the courts for breach of contract if your new employer breaks your terms and conditions , even if you have only just joined the firm . |
| 24 | Legislators have only just passed the 1993 budget , and they will not appreciate having to rearrange the billions in pork they packed into it . |
| 25 | ‘ We have only just finished the legal disputes , ’ he says , ‘ and we 're still fighting compensation battles . |
| 26 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |