Example sentences of "had only just [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One was the common ostrich ; the other was the smaller ‘ petise ’ version that Darwin had only just snatched from the jaws of his shipmates . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had only just recovered from another bout of serious illness and was still extremely weak . |
| 7 | Sir Ranulph 's weight had dropped from 14 to 10 stones and he and Dr Stroud , 37 , had only just recovered from the low blood sugar condition hypoglycaemia . |