Example sentences of "had [adv] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The yeomen , husbandmen and craftsmen who lived in these tenements had mostly just a single fireplace in their timber-framed houses at the time of the hearth tax return of 1672 . |
| 2 | It had all just happened in the random way things do . |
| 3 | They had all just pushed their way into the house , and crowded into the small sitting room . |
| 4 | It had all just been rummaging around . |
| 5 | I once went out to dinner and discovered that the seven other people present had all just finished reading A Dance to the Music of Time . |
| 6 | He had just begun and yet it had all just ended . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And besides , they had only just met . |
| 9 | For example , emotional problems are often presented as justification for a person 's drunkenness , especially if they are female , and on one occasion a youth who had been involved in an accident but who had only just passed his driving test was let off with a caution by a policewoman in sympathy for his inexperience . |
| 10 | The designer 's job had only just begun , he said . |
| 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 | ‘ This we consider to be a retrograde and unnecessary step , ’ particularly since these powers had only just been vested in the NRA under the Water Act , he said . |
| 13 | If anything , he had only just got wound up . |
| 14 | He concentrated the Sandinista troops along the Honduran frontier ; offered to end arms imports until after the election ; gave assurances of safe conduct to returning rebels ; and then said he was ready to reinstate the ceasefire he had only just abrogated . |
| 15 | Although the first British atomic bomb had only just been tested a month before at Monte Bello Island off the north-west coast of Australia , the British government , under Churchill 's leadership , decided remarkably quickly in December to follow the American lead and to build its own hydrogen bomb as soon as possible . |
| 16 | Charles felt a bit starchy in battle dress which had only just been issued to the TA . |
| 17 | This may not have been immediately obvious from the results of the 1935 General Election , for the Party had only just accepted Attlee as its leader on the eve of the election . |
| 18 | There was a smell of coffee in the air and a feeling that every room had only just been vacated by somebody . |
| 19 | He had only just arrived , had n't even booked in . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |
| 22 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 23 | He had only just recovered from another bout of serious illness and was still extremely weak . |
| 24 | Pronethalol had only just come into clinical use when it was found to produce tumours in mice . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I had only just joined the school as my family had recently moved into the area . |
| 27 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 28 | I felt a momentary regret for all the waves I would never ride , when I had only just learned how . |
| 29 | The group found themselves part of a movement called ‘ Shambling ’ , which was largely a reaction to the po-faced stance of goth that had only just entered its coffin . |
| 30 | He then visited Quebec Barracks and saw the new brick buildings there which had only just replaced the old South African war huts . |