Example sentences of "[pron] had only just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had only just joined the school as my family had recently moved into the area . |
| 3 | I had only just noticed her — so I must have been taking things seriously — but she was worth waiting to be polite to . |
| 4 | To interrupt at such a time would be selfish and babyish — which I had only just promised Heavenly Father not to be . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I felt a momentary regret for all the waves I would never ride , when I had only just learned how . |
| 8 | He then visited Quebec Barracks and saw the new brick buildings there which had only just replaced the old South African war huts . |
| 9 | He had been up half the previous night upon a quite different case , and all this night upon this , which had only just become a case , and his , after all . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She must be dreaming , but surely she had only just gone to sleep . |
| 13 | Hilda felt he was a stranger , someone she had only just met , a feeling she sometimes had when he met up with friends he 'd known before they got married . |
| 14 | She appeared taken aback , as if she had only just realised that the pair of them were not alone . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He did not think there would be any point in Sara travelling to Wellingham that evening , especially as she had only just got back from abroad . |
| 17 | She had only just arrived , after all . |
| 18 | She had only just finished when he called her to join him and enjoy the view of Gibraltar from the sea . |
| 19 | 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 ! ’ |
| 20 | It was a comfortable victory and encouraging to see Macdonald , who had only just arrived in Australia to replace Stuart Reid , doing so well so soon . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 23 | ‘ Joan , when I departed for Ludlow , it was with a heavy heart — for it seemed to me we had only just found each other , ’ Edward told her . |
| 24 | They had only just come . |
| 25 | And besides , they had only just met . |
| 26 | We were not feeling at all holy when we went in , having decided that all men were rotters , and fancy leaving us at Christmas for a couple of dames they had only just met ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Both Adie Smith and Jason Pratt phoned to say they had only just heard we have two games on Saturday . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But advice workers in Middlesbrough said they had only just heard of the drug and had no reports of its presence in the county . |