Example sentences of "[noun sg] had only just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eighteen his apprenticeship in rhetorical violence and grievous bodily harm had only just begun . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The designer 's job had only just begun , he said . |
| 4 | He nodded , relieved that they had left her alone although he knew this business had only just started . |
| 5 | I could see that the picture had only just started . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Higher education had only just resumed with some semblance of normality after the disruption of the previous decade . |
| 8 | Soon my working day was over , but the night had only just begun , the streets and piazzas just beginning to hum with life . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Who knows , ’ he pretended that the thought had only just occurred to him , ‘ they might be attacked by bandits . ’ |
| 12 | I have n't been to a gym in ages , ’ Vitor said , and frowned as though the omission had only just occurred to him . |
| 13 | He saw Maud once in the Kurfûrstendamm , eating alone in a cafe and looking a little desolate , with a stack of coins already piled beside her plate although her meal had only just come . |
| 14 | Most of those who took part had only just met . |
| 15 | Lying in the rocks , the stems look like broken necklaces , their individual beads sometimes scattered , sometimes still in loose snaking columns as though their thread had only just snapped . |
| 16 | It was the witching hour of midnight back home but the England nightmare had only just begun . |
| 17 | ‘ There could be a way to save him , ’ he said , as if the possibility had only just occurred to him . |
| 18 | Cos I thought well the couple had only just walked up there and I thought to myself oh well he might meet up with them , you know . |
| 19 | Christmas had only just gone , and now the mornings were bright . |
| 20 | Such borrowing from European civilization had only just begun in 1880 . |
| 21 | This may not have been immediately obvious from the results of the 1935 General Election , for the Party had only just accepted Attlee as its leader on the eve of the election . |