Example sentences of "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 | This special place of the Sun in the Galaxy , if confirmed , certainly alters our picture of even the recent geological history of our planet , since we have only just emerged from a spiral arm . |
| 5 | Yeah well of course only just gone from last bloody night have n't they ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Miss Driver , 22 , has appeared in the television series Lovejoy , House of Eliott , Casualty and Kinsey , and has only just returned from Budapest — filming a Maigret adventure . |
| 8 | She phoned to say that , having only just returned from Chester , it would be around nine before she could get over with it , and would that be all right ? |
| 9 | She did n't seem surprised to see him sitting there still in his cloak and obviously only just returned from Mass , and he knew at once that she had been told about the murders . |
| 10 | As it happened the new ramp section was only just rescued from a bulldozer in the nick of time as the skate scene said a final goodbye to Andover skatepark . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In fact , only just recovered from the ringworm , Nijinsky went to Doncaster chiefly to please his owner Charles Englehard who , not surprisingly , coveted the rare sporting distinction of a British Triple Crown . |
| 13 | He had only just recovered from another bout of serious illness and was still extremely weak . |
| 14 | But the Scot has only just recovered from a mystery virus and insists he needs to be involved for some 10 matches before he is back to his best . |
| 15 | Seventh in the English Schools final last year , the 17-year-old Morpeth Harrier has only just recovered from a dislocated hip . |
| 16 | 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 . |