Example sentences of "they have only just [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 What it was she could n't guess , but his enmity seemed deeper than it should have been , given that they 'd only just met .
2 They 'd only just pitched camp , but I soon had them on their way . ’
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 And erm , I did n't know they came to orchestra , perhaps they 've only just joined .
6 No they 've only just gone out
7 those are n't ready , they 've only just gone out
8 Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so
9 They 've only just got here .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 And besides , they had only just met .
12 We were not feeling at all holy when we went in , having decided that all men were rotters , and fancy leaving us at Christmas for a couple of dames they had only just met !
13 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 .
14 Both Adie Smith and Jason Pratt phoned to say they had only just heard we have two games on Saturday .
15 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 .
16 But advice workers in Middlesbrough said they had only just heard of the drug and had no reports of its presence in the county .
17 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 .
18 Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude .
19 They had only just managed to get on the vessel in time .
20 Dewdrops , on the other hand , exist , not because they are durable , but because they have only just come into existence and have not yet had time to evaporate .
21 British businessmen feel they have only just restored their right to manage after a hard-won showdown with organised labour .
22 Where we are going ( 1700 England ) they have only just got over periodic waves of bubonic plague .
23 On the other hand it appears that on occasions drivers may have no memory at all for road signs which they have just seen or for relatively complex manoeuvres which they have only just performed .
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