Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have only [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either that , or he had only yesterday decided to bow to fashion and grow a beard . |
| 2 | Here I am , for Chrissakes , about to dine alongside two people who knew Claudia Cohn-Casson , in surroundings she knew well , in an ambience which I know ail too well , although I have only just arrived . |
| 3 | To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before . |
| 4 | The very fact that I had only properly discovered a foundation of happiness when separated from the world should have shown me that the tendency of the world was to flood and destroy such a thing . |
| 5 | However , I would suggest that this score is inflated by " Terra " , a proper name that I have only ever seen in a science fictional context to refer to the planet Earth . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’ |
| 7 | He 'd spoken so quietly , his face against the top of her head , that she 'd only just heard his words . |
| 8 | ‘ Down To Earth ’ will prove that she has not only mastered here medium , but that she has only just begun . |
| 9 | As she comes to , outside the duty-free wristwatches , it suddenly occurs to her that she 's only ever had one holiday with Chris before , and that was three days in northern France . |
| 10 | ‘ However , I see that you 've only just got up . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It may interest you to learn , oh Wise and Wonderful One , ’ said Cassie tartly , ‘ that we 've only just got rid of a woman Prime Minister . |
| 12 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 13 | Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’ |
| 14 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 15 | ‘ By contrast , talking to small and medium-sized businesses in the South-East I often find that they have only ever experienced one recession the current one and it can prove fatal . ’ |
| 16 | There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading . |
| 17 | He 'd been so disinterested in her progress during six years of primary school that he 'd only ever visited the school once . |
| 18 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |
| 19 | But even as he at last turned and , more like a conjurer than ever , whipped the cloth from the object on the table , which turned out to be a saucepan containing water scooped from the shattered font , the first heavy drops began to drum on the altar table ; and while the Padre was saying : " Hope Mary Ellen , I baptize thee In the name of the Father and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , Amen , " the Collector , forgetting that he had only just renounced an interest in the vain pomp and glory of the world , thought crossly : " That wo n't do the Louis XVI table any good at all . " |
| 20 | Dr Tydeman said that he had only once seen a patient suffering from the condition and he found it particularly frightening and disturbing . |
| 21 | Jon pointed out the clearly visible " honey guides " on the plants ' petals , and explained that he had only recently discovered that they could be pollinated by butterflies . |
| 22 | Pursuing this theory , we attributed to him some great and unhappy love , and then surmised that he had only ever confessed it to Madame , perhaps in the days of his terrible drunkenness . |
| 23 | Such a person may be believed when he says that he has only once tasted marijuana and did not inhale . |
| 24 | Tom adds however that he has only ever seen a maximum of two wolf teeth grown in the upper jaw ; four wolf teeth are extremely rare . |
| 25 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been working on a report and I 've only just realised how late it is . |
| 27 | I 've had my rib transfer carriage about nine years and I 've only just discovered that ! |
| 28 | Well , I had this one bought at Christmas and I 've only just got him persuaded to let me bring the board down to do it downstairs cos you , where are we going to put it ? |
| 29 | and I 've only just started , still got two people outstanding so I 've got that forty pound and I put that into the building society and use that forty pounds for months see so it kind of like saved it for me , I 've managed , had to do without it |
| 30 | and I 've only just finished our , our Christmas er bun loaf sort of thing , you know |