Example sentences of "had [adv] just [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once went out to dinner and discovered that the seven other people present had all just finished reading A Dance to the Music of Time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ A little , ’ she admitted reluctantly , but it had only just begun to do so , and she suspected that the tension induced by his presence at the end of an unusually demanding day was more responsible than the bump . |
| 4 | Yet the radiant aspect of Chesney Wold as Esther first sees it had only just begun to lose its fascination for the English as the ideal that humbler men might emulate in a reduced form . |
| 5 | Peter had only just begun to go through the night without demanding a feed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They had only just managed to get on the vessel in time . |
| 8 | He was nineteen years of age and had only just qualified to receive the King 's shilling ; but now he was a couple of inches taller , shaved and had even come near to losing his virginity . |
| 9 | If anything , he had only just got wound up . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | They had obviously just finished dancing , and just as obviously their next stop would be the nearest double bed . |