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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see
4 and I mean I then I 'd only just had my operation an and to actually drive for longer than about twenty minute journeys was killing so
5 Well I 'd only just brought it in the kitchen actually .
6 It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger .
7 I 'd only just bought the Granada .
8 Especially since I 'd only just arrived back from Paris . ’
9 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 .
10 I had only just joined the school as my family had recently moved into the area .
11 I had only just noticed her — so I must have been taking things seriously — but she was worth waiting to be polite to .
12 To interrupt at such a time would be selfish and babyish — which I had only just promised Heavenly Father not to be .
13 I had only just finished describing the happiness of endless life , when I realized that my friend 's shoulders were shaking and tears of laughter were running down his face .
14 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 .
15 I felt a momentary regret for all the waves I would never ride , when I had only just learned how .
16 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
17 So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it
18 Yep I 've only just done one of those surveys the other week , is there a coupon with it ?
19 I 've only just done this one .
20 This is in today 's edition , I 've only just seen it . ’
21 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 .
22 So , anyway , erm he went to see this lad , then he says oh I 've only just rang up about these speakers , they 're eleven pound odd each .
23 I 'm sorry — it 's awful , I know , but I 've only just heard and — Hello — is anybody there … ? ’
24 I 've only just reached my decision , ’ Adam said softly .
25 After two years of going to Kenya I 've only just realised what it is you 're supposed to do — walk !
26 I 'm in love with Gillie , I 've only just realised it .
27 It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is …
28 ‘ I 've been working on a report and I 've only just realised how late it is .
29 ‘ It 's ridiculous — I 've only just realised how much I 'm going to miss all this . ’
30 I 've only just realised right , they 're gon na
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