Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Apart from the last 2 bleak and miserable years , where I 've only managed to get to about 10 games because of my new secret life as a student . ) |
| 2 | What was encouraging was the way we played — the best I 've seen them this term ( although I 've only seen 4 matches ) . |
| 3 | Erm and erm I do n't think that on the to go on about affordable housing as I did this morning , I do n't think that in fact the affordable housing targets which the different authorities have and although I 've only quoted four authorities I think , I think the other ones will be very much the same . |
| 4 | Yes I have , I mean , firstly my colleagues have been very supportive , and my company , Sea Search Editions , but the er local businesses , the other local businesses have started to respond and although I 've only put , I 've got piles of envelopes at home to deliver still , I am getting some success , I 'm rapidly getting near that 512 pounds . |
| 5 | For a real account of the BCR we must wait for Martin Davies 's definitive history , but although I have only included some of the anecdotes which crop up again and again , and a few photographs , many BCRS member have given invaluable assistance , and the presence of the Railway taken for granted throughout the time covered by ‘ BISHOP 'S CASTLE WELL-REMEMBERED ’ . |
| 6 | That I 've only had |
| 7 | I replied cautiously , acutely aware that I had n't seen Spock and Kirk do their thing for years and that I 'd only seen one episode of the new series . |
| 8 | I also had to wear new pink sandals that I had only received the morning of the wedding . |
| 9 | Left message with reception that I had only dealt with three calls — no more time to deal with any others . |
| 10 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 11 | With the best counselling in the world , it is n't possible for a person like me , sometimes feeling guilty at even being alive , firm in my belief that I have only to breathe to be a nuisance , to suddenly switch through 180 degrees and see myself as white or even grey after seeing myself as black for sixty years . |
| 12 | Fear that I have only dreamed of moving forward , that when I go in and face it I will see that it is a mistake , not possible , uninteresting . |
| 13 | Memet says when you 're travelling all you need to take these days is precautions , so I 've only got the one bag . |
| 14 | This was a problem that merited expert advice , and , although she 'd only met the personnel director once before , she 'd liked him . |
| 15 | She went hot all over at the thought , too upset to understand that she had only escaped his hold because he had let her . |
| 16 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 17 | It seems to have been her settled conviction that she had only to see and to speak to him , and he would agree to return to her . |
| 18 | The Judge said that he had stolen Lady Margaret 's ring , and that she had only bought it that day and the ring was a very expensive diamond . |
| 19 | Mme Fournier was still in the car , she called out that she had only come to deliver a message . |
| 20 | Disconcerted , she admitted that she 'd only done this once before , that , in all honesty , I could probably do it equally well on my own . |
| 21 | She did n't bother to tell me that she 'd only got to call you , right ? |
| 22 | It was no good saying in her defence that she 'd only meant to be Cara Kingsdale for an hour , because things had n't worked out that way . |
| 23 | It has meant that she has only had two training sessions in the last month , which is scarcely the preparation necessary to face her hardest opponent in the world . |
| 24 | There was a time , I think , in the late sixties , when erm the education service did itself very little good by going along with the general mythology that you had only to put more money into the schools to service , to solve all social problems . |
| 25 | And not only that you 've only got ta |
| 26 | They think that you 've only got to feed in your data and out pops an Identikit of sonny complete with prints , collar-size and taste in pop music . ’ |
| 27 | Right so you worked out that you 've only got to learn half of them . |
| 28 | Check your input and make sure that you have only selected one item . |
| 29 | And then the stairs the stairs are facing you like that , so you 've only got about about a metre of in between the bottom of the stairs and your front door and you s just sort of go in through there an and you 're in the living room . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , he said it did n't mean anything , so you 've only got yourself to blame if you did n't believe him , ’ Kathleen told herself glumly . |