Example sentences of "only just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Miss Hardbroom , I was the frog in the potion laboratory , the one you found in the corridor , and the potion I took is only just wearing off , that 's why I have n't any feet at the moment . |
| 2 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 3 | In a recent letter to Dr Jeffrey , the association 's chairman , Electricity Association chief executive Roger Farrance , said ‘ The EEIBA only just manages to balance its books and its case load is increasing all the time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He could only just reach the handle to close the door behind him . |
| 6 | By the beginning of the third week , Charlie could only just fit his swollen toes into the heavy leather boots the army had supplied him with , but looking down the rows of feet that adorned the barrack room floor each morning he could see that none of his comrades was any better off . |
| 7 | ‘ The view is that the middle tier will have to merge , and we are only just seeing the beginning of this , ’ Michael Jenkin , Glanville 's managing director , told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 8 | that 's right , so you 'll probably only just seeing |
| 9 | Oh I only just put number seven in there , surely . |
| 10 | Yeah but I du n no how much I got in there cos I only just put so much in there so I 'll check it on Monday . |
| 11 | I have only just understood that this logic was so . |
| 12 | Well that 's what I said to him , why not yours he only just cut it , that couple of grandsons they 've all done it all up |
| 13 | A red carpet was laid out on the runway by soldiers — they only just had it straight when the official parties arrived . |
| 14 | She was carrying a small spear and only just had time to raise it and thrust it at the Scarag . |
| 15 | Higher education had only just resumed with some semblance of normality after the disruption of the previous decade . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He 's only just lent it to me to use during this week . |
| 18 | Police discovered Carol Clark 's other life last week , but have only just revealed details . |
| 19 | The court was told that all three were now grown up , with the girls 27 and 31 , and had only just revealed their ordeal at the hands of their stepfather . |
| 20 | He then visited Quebec Barracks and saw the new brick buildings there which had only just replaced the old South African war huts . |
| 21 | He gave it a stab which only just carried it up the slope and onto the edge of the green . |
| 22 | Although only just elected to the Executive Committee as Galway Area Secretary , Tom is no stranger to ‘ 93 ’ as for 6 years , from 1973 top 1979 , he was an Executive Committee member as Cork District Secretary . |
| 23 | A dong chop nau nau — I have only just eaten |
| 24 | ‘ You see , we 've only just eaten our lessons for today , and it 's made us feel rather sick . ’ |
| 25 | ’ Oh , it 's only just blown up . |
| 26 | ‘ I only just let you in , ’ Tammuz reminded hir . |
| 27 | I only just let him in . |
| 28 | Involuntarily the landlord of the Feathers shivered , peering uncertainly up at this late wayfarer , whose peremptory summons on the front door had recalled him to undo the bolts he had only just shot to . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’ |
| 30 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |