Example sentences of "have only [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , accounting and economic literature has only begun to do this relatively recently . |
| 2 | Still , Anixter has only begun to exploit its potential . |
| 3 | Research so far has only begun to offer sociological or psychological analyses which would enable us to develop typologies of carers and those cared for . |
| 4 | It is not something any pilot would wish to happen on take-off , when power is at full thrust and the plane has only begun to fly as it approaches the end of the runway . |
| 5 | However , the attention lavished on the Conservative party , and especially on the Conservative Party 's ideas , in the past few years has only served to emphasize the relative neglect of Conservative history and Conservative thought before Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | Established to rekindle Anglo-Italian relations after the Heysel disaster , the tournament has only served to blacken the name of soccer . |
| 7 | The reintroduction of stamp duty in August , which is the equivalent of 20% of the deposit required for a 95% mortgage , has only served to aggravate the problem . |
| 8 | On the contrary , everything has only served to strengthen it , ’ Travis countered heavily . |
| 9 | Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say , or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it . |
| 10 | and has only offered to buy me one beer so far . |
| 11 | Jim , who lives and delivers in Kilkeel , Co Down , has only failed to make his round once — and that was in a snowstorm in 1977 when his delivery van had to be towed out of a drift . |
| 12 | So far , she has only managed to sell around 600 tickets for tomorrow 's charity concert by the Royal Marines at the 1000-capacity Liverpool Philharmonic Hall . |
| 13 | And in this particular county one has only got to look to Ryedale who s I so far as I know is the only authority to have carried out a comprehensive survey of local housing needs . |
| 14 | He has only come to see if we want any meat , which will be coming into the shop tomorrow . |
| 15 | He has only come to appreciate properly the importance of loving discipline and the need for obedience since he and Maggie have had children themselves . |
| 16 | Someone who has only agreed to buy ( i.e. to whom property has not yet passed ) can not do so , Shaw v. Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis ( 1987 C.A. ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd only intended to fix myself a light snack and get an early night . |
| 18 | She 'd only intended to buy a small tin of paint and one brush . |
| 19 | Yeah , that 's what Alan said they were away were n't they , she 'd only gone to walk the dog |
| 20 | I 'd only gone say two weeks without it , but it takes a lot longer than that to actually sort yourself out , anyway … . |
| 21 | He 'd only agreed to go because Lily told him it was a musical and had walked out the moment Bernadette started sinking to her knees in the fields . |
| 22 | He said he 'd only meant to frighten the victim , not kill him . |
| 23 | She did n't bother to tell me that she 'd only got to call you , right ? |
| 24 | ‘ Did n't you say I 'd only got to come an' see yer if the geezer got awkward ? ’ |
| 25 | Yo , you 'd only got to tell mother and she 'd soon be after him ! |
| 26 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 27 | You may have only intended to have a small black coffee but given all the antecedent events ( that is , the things we have described leading up to walking into the café ) , the probability is high that you will break the diet . |
| 28 | Still , it was the sort of match that we 'd have only managed to draw last season , i.e. all over them but could n't put the ball in the onion net . |
| 29 | With all that history of service and success behind him , Austin remains as sharp and on the ball as ever , having only stopped swimming himself some three years ago . |
| 30 | I 've only had to carry a pistol once , just a few hours . |