Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] only just " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 2 | Especially since I 'd only just arrived back from Paris . ’ |
| 3 | After all , I 'd only just stopped doing my paper-round and I heard them talking about headlong stuff I never knew about before : abortions , heroin , Sylvia Plath , prostitution . |
| 4 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 5 | I 'd only just bought the Granada . |
| 6 | Well I 'd only just brought it in the kitchen actually . |
| 7 | and I mean I then I 'd only just had my operation an and to actually drive for longer than about twenty minute journeys was killing so |
| 8 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 9 | This was just as well , for I saw only just in time a hen crossing my path in the most leisurely manner . |
| 10 | I had only just joined the school as my family had recently moved into the area . |
| 11 | I felt a momentary regret for all the waves I would never ride , when I had only just learned how . |
| 12 | I had only just finished describing the happiness of endless life , when I realized that my friend 's shoulders were shaking and tears of laughter were running down his face . |
| 13 | This was the moment for me to escape , but I had only just left the sitting-room and reached the hall , when Mr Rochester appeared through another door . |
| 14 | To interrupt at such a time would be selfish and babyish — which I had only just promised Heavenly Father not to be . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated . |
| 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 | ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd spoken so quietly , his face against the top of her head , that she 'd only just heard his words . |
| 20 | How ridiculous to feel such a sense of possession , of oneness with a man she 'd only just met . |
| 21 | And she 'd only just gone to the end of the road to phone Ken was working away . |
| 22 | And she 'd only just got up ? |
| 23 | I ca n't remember who it was now , but they said have you been , have you seen this , have you done that , which she said no she has n't , I think she 'd only just arrived some , some time last week did n't she ? |
| 24 | Then she cried for Adam , cried because she was suddenly frightened he was dead , cried for the loss of something she had only just found . |
| 25 | She had only just seen that Beuno had come and was sitting in the garden amongst the wild Welsh poppies and the camomile daisies and the pheasant feathers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had only just arrived , after all . |
| 28 | She appeared taken aback , as if she had only just realised that the pair of them were not alone . |
| 29 | She had only just finished when he called her to join him and enjoy the view of Gibraltar from the sea . |
| 30 | It seemed she had only just drifted off when she was woken by a sharp rap on the door and Nathan 's impatient voice announcing , ‘ Breakfast in five minutes ! ’ |