Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adv] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he frowned , as if her words had only just reached him . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What he did n't realize however , was that the real questions had only just begun . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Both Gary Smith and Barry Dowdeswell , chief executive of the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle 's oldest teaching hospital , agreed that the acute hospitals had only just woken up to community care . |