Example sentences of "[be] only [v-ing] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That they 're only pretending to have Liam in your house . |
| 2 | ‘ I hope mine host wo n't mind when he finds we 're only going to have coffee and bread and cheese — because we really ought n't to have a banquet ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , they 're different , but you 're only going to have the variation on three of the strings ; the three plain strings are going to feel pretty similar . |
| 4 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 5 | We were only going to have an hour together . ’ |
| 6 | I were only going to have a look . |
| 7 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |