Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] only been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 2 | In 1985 , he claimed defensively , ‘ There 's black and white proof I 'm not the killer I 'm supposed to be , I 've only been sent off twice . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 4 | Lord Mayor , I 've only been brought up under the National Health Service for thirty two years and I feel sorry for that poor doctor . |
| 5 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 6 | After establishing myself in the team I have only been dropped once , that was by John Duncan and I deserved it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 8 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 9 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
| 10 | She had only been daunted for a moment , however . |
| 11 | She kept in the background , realizing that she had only been brought along to make up numbers . |
| 12 | To all intents and purposes he was an attache with the Kenyan delegation at the United Nations and the only person outside UNACO who knew the truth was his wife , and even she had only been briefed in the vaguest possible terms . |
| 13 | D' ya know would you believe that she 's only been laid twice . |
| 14 | ‘ People are going on as if there is a crisis at Blackburn because we have n't won for seven weeks , but we 've only been beaten twice this season and if that 's a crisis God help us . ’ |
| 15 | They 'd only been beaten 3 times this season so you feared the worst , but it was Oxford who struck next ; another no goal , or no penalty , according to Kevin Keegan . |
| 16 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 17 | The force wants 800 officers of the next four years ; they 've only been given 44 this year . |
| 18 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 19 | On Jan. 3 the government claimed to have defeated the rebels and on Jan. 7 the French government started to pull out its reinforcements on the grounds that they had only been sent in to protect French expatriates and that this purpose had now been served . |
| 20 | These problems appear to be real enough and to be indistinguishable from other problems but in fact they have only been created by ourselves . |
| 21 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 22 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 23 | So far , they have only been described from localities in the Netherlands and Germany but another example may be present in N.E. England ( Clark in press ) . |
| 24 | As far as I know , he has only been used occasionally . ’ |
| 25 | However , it has only been tested on one domain . |
| 26 | In the North Atlantic it has only been recorded from south of Martha 's Vineyard in 2509 m . |
| 27 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 28 | it has only been applied , however , on a very limited scale . |
| 29 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 30 | Not surprisingly perhaps , it has only been repeated three or four times in 14 years ! |