Example sentences of "had [adv] just [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 2 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 3 | ‘ We destroyed him because he betrayed The Law ! ’ said Hasan , in the kind of voice that suggested Hasan the Second , the Twenty-third Imam of the Nizari Ismailis , had only just popped out of the room for a cup of coffee instead of being stabbed nearly a thousand years ago . |
| 4 | About going t about getting the Henr scholarship to , had only just opened then , |
| 5 | It seemed she had only just drifted off when she was woken by a sharp rap on the door and Nathan 's impatient voice announcing , ‘ Breakfast in five minutes ! ’ |
| 6 | It was disappointing to discover on asking if I could have them to find that the museum had only just got round to registering what appeared to be Audubon 's proofs . |
| 7 | He did not think there would be any point in Sara travelling to Wellingham that evening , especially as she had only just got back from abroad . |
| 8 | Both Gary Smith and Barry Dowdeswell , chief executive of the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle 's oldest teaching hospital , agreed that the acute hospitals had only just woken up to community care . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I felt a momentary regret for all the waves I would never ride , when I had only just learned how . |
| 11 | Did I gather he had only just arrived back ? ’ |
| 12 | Cos I thought well the couple had only just walked up there and I thought to myself oh well he might meet up with them , you know . |
| 13 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |
| 14 | But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’ |
| 15 | Not twenty yards from the open gateway it had apparently just driven through . |
| 16 | A young woman who had evidently just got out of the Mini was approaching . |