Example sentences of "[noun] had [adv] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now the meal was over , and David had only just made an appearance . |
| 2 | The A-Z told me that the gardens off the alley belonged to the houses on Lee Metford Road and there seemed no good reason why Nevil had not just driven straight there . |
| 3 | Then he frowned , as if her words had only just reached him . |
| 4 | At eighteen his apprenticeship in rhetorical violence and grievous bodily harm had only just begun . |
| 5 | Rosslyn realised that the horse was asking for help , and that his manners had n't just experienced a mysterious and miraculous change for the better during the course of the day ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Father Crispin had unfortunately just knocked over a wine cup and was cleaning up the mess with a napkin . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Korea had not just intensified the Cold War with , for example , analogies being drawn between the partitioned Korean peninsula and the divided nature of Germany ; it also placed an extra burden on American resources . |
| 10 | One was the common ostrich ; the other was the smaller ‘ petise ’ version that Darwin had only just snatched from the jaws of his shipmates . |
| 11 | The designer 's job had only just begun , he said . |
| 12 | He nodded , relieved that they had left her alone although he knew this business had only just started . |
| 13 | Cousin and neighbour Nicholas Gutesha , said : ‘ Robert had only just decorated the house as a Christmas treat for his mum . ’ |
| 14 | I could see that the picture had only just started . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What he did n't realize however , was that the real questions had only just begun . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It seemed to D'Arcy that his head had only just hit the cushion on the settee in Victor 's flat when he was shaken awake . |
| 19 | Higher education had only just resumed with some semblance of normality after the disruption of the previous decade . |
| 20 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 21 | Soon my working day was over , but the night had only just begun , the streets and piazzas just beginning to hum with life . |
| 22 | It was true , it had the feel of truth : the woman had n't just fallen over a cliff . |
| 23 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 24 | It was sparsely furnished , for Anne had only just come into her inheritance , but it was newly decorated and clean . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Peter had only just begun to go through the night without demanding a feed . |
| 27 | If they wished to prevent Labour forming a government , they would have to come to an arrangement with Baldwin , rather than any other Conservative ; and since the Liberals had only just fought an election opposing Baldwin 's policy of Protection , this would be a difficult course for them to take . |
| 28 | But Liz had never mentioned that Ross was so staggeringly good-looking ; nor had she made any reference to his devastating physical impact , although , to be fair , since both she and her cousin had only just finished taking their final college examinations , they 'd hardly been able to spend any time together before the wedding . |
| 29 | Who knows , ’ he pretended that the thought had only just occurred to him , ‘ they might be attacked by bandits . ’ |
| 30 | I have n't been to a gym in ages , ’ Vitor said , and frowned as though the omission had only just occurred to him . |