Example sentences of "had only just begun " 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 . |