Example sentences of "had only just come " in BNC.
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1 | They had only just come . |
2 | It had only just come to be important before the ‘ unnatural ’ town of the industrial revolution conjured up some of the most dramatic and ‘ romanticized ’ of contrasts . |
3 | Just watch , I 'll put the Teletext on , out of all the races there was one there King 's Fountain , first , it had , it had only just come first and I 'd switched it on , I went wow |
4 | Pronethalol had only just come into clinical use when it was found to produce tumours in mice . |
5 | But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’ |
6 | Germany predominating , they also shared the iron ore deposits of the Saar basin and Lorraine ( these last had only just come into use , because of the discovery by an English chemist , Thomas , of a way of making steel from iron ore with a high content of phosphorus ) . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | It was sparsely furnished , for Anne had only just come into her inheritance , but it was newly decorated and clean . |