Example sentences of "had only just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The designer 's job had only just begun , he said . |
| 2 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |
| 3 | If the dispute had ended there , the exchange of words would have passed into football folklore as further evidence of Gallacher 's greatness , but the bad boy from Bellshill had only just begun . |
| 4 | Soon my working day was over , but the night had only just begun , the streets and piazzas just beginning to hum with life . |
| 5 | The aspirations of the knightly class at its best and the sense that Christendom must go over to the offensive against Islam are nowhere more succinctly expressed than in this poem , written when the Christian reconquest of Spain was well under way , but when the crusades had only just begun , shortly before or shortly after the launching of the First Crusade . |
| 6 | The government , however , had only just begun their punitive measures against excessive liberalism . |
| 7 | Peter had only just begun to go through the night without demanding a feed . |
| 8 | Such borrowing from European civilization had only just begun in 1880 . |
| 9 | At eighteen his apprenticeship in rhetorical violence and grievous bodily harm had only just begun . |
| 10 | Yet the radiant aspect of Chesney Wold as Esther first sees it had only just begun to lose its fascination for the English as the ideal that humbler men might emulate in a reduced form . |
| 11 | His parents had only just begun to give him and his sibling the lore of their territory , telling him the names of eagles who had nested there before . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ A little , ’ she admitted reluctantly , but it had only just begun to do so , and she suspected that the tension induced by his presence at the end of an unusually demanding day was more responsible than the bump . |
| 14 | What he did n't realize however , was that the real questions had only just begun . |
| 15 | It was the witching hour of midnight back home but the England nightmare had only just begun . |
| 16 | She had no doubt her entry had been heard , that the soft sound she had only just noticed was of someone ducking out of sight . |
| 17 | I had only just noticed her — so I must have been taking things seriously — but she was worth waiting to be polite to . |
| 18 | He left Grace and Peggy behind with the intention of travelling for a while in Europe , but he had only just landed in South Africa when Grace realized that she was going to have another child . |
| 19 | And besides , they had only just met . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | Most of those who took part had only just met . |
| 22 | Hilda felt he was a stranger , someone she had only just met , a feeling she sometimes had when he met up with friends he 'd known before they got married . |
| 23 | But even as he at last turned and , more like a conjurer than ever , whipped the cloth from the object on the table , which turned out to be a saucepan containing water scooped from the shattered font , the first heavy drops began to drum on the altar table ; and while the Padre was saying : " Hope Mary Ellen , I baptize thee In the name of the Father and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , Amen , " the Collector , forgetting that he had only just renounced an interest in the vain pomp and glory of the world , thought crossly : " That wo n't do the Louis XVI table any good at all . " |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She appeared taken aback , as if she had only just realised that the pair of them were not alone . |
| 26 | It was as if she had needed to do this for such a long , long time , but had only just realised it . |
| 27 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 28 | He then visited Quebec Barracks and saw the new brick buildings there which had only just replaced the old South African war huts . |
| 29 | But now the meal was over , and David had only just made an appearance . |
| 30 | That Fran had no intention of doing just that had only just struck him , and he did n't like it one little bit ! |