Example sentences of "[noun sg] only had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him . |
| 2 | Well mum only had hers on one the other week . |
| 3 | Pamela only had a few friends ( 1 year ) . |
| 4 | As the Renfrew field only had one runway the forecast predicted a change in wind direction which would make landing difficult , if not impossible . |
| 5 | The camera was set to auto programme so the photographer only had to concentrate on focusing . |
| 6 | The photographer only had the opportunity to do it because it was a benefit and he had access to the models that he would n't normally have . |
| 7 | For the record , too , the Press spokesman said the president only had the haircut because he was assured that doing so would not tie up traffic at the airport . |
| 8 | There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths . |
| 9 | His action only had the effect of helping to throw the Moravians too into the arms of Byzantine Christianity . |
| 10 | The story goes that an angry auto body painter noticed his masking tape only had adhesive along its edges and told the salesman : ‘ Take this tape back to your stingy Scotch bosses and tell them to put more adhesive on it . ’ |
| 11 | Apparently the mill only had a short working life as a corn mill , having been turned over to saw milling by the 1920s . |
| 12 | When the sun rose we did all the necessary and then noticed this cat only had one eye . |
| 13 | The most common forms of sickle cell disease are sickle cell trait where the abnormal gene is inherited from one parent only had sickle cell anaemia where two copies of the abnormal gene are inherited , one from each parent . |
| 14 | The Trotskyists and pacifist groups which continued to oppose the war only had the power to attract Left support between late 1939 and 1941 . |
| 15 | Her husband only had one leg , and he used to sit in the corner all the time and wave his stick at you if he thought you were pinching anything . |
| 16 | However , as Nafis Sadik , head of UNFPA , pointed out : " Even if every woman only had 2.1 children [ the replacement level ] the population is already so large [ at just over 5.5 billion ] that we will be headed for 8.5 billion people no matter what " . |
| 17 | But the England under-21 midfielder only had to wait until the 53rd minute to exact his revenge when he chipped in a telling cross for Goodman to score . |
| 18 | Also , each manager only had shift responsibility and so could not co-ordinate the work across shifts . |
| 19 | I set limits by saying that the farmer only had straight and right-angled brackets with which to join the fences . |
| 20 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 21 | In one matter only had she determined to have her own way : she was going to be on good terms with the neighbours for the sake of her sanity . |
| 22 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
| 23 | When the hotel only had one toilet , it was the board master 's privilege to have first use every morning . |
| 24 | It transpired that his mother only had one leg . ’ |
| 25 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 26 | One of those cars Terry 's mother only had two . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps the murderer only had enough evidence now to decide on revenge ? ’ |