Example sentences of "and he had only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manners , defending his actions , said that the Select Committee left it to the executive Government to select the style and the architects , and he had only acted accordingly . |
| 2 | Sarah was now his wife , and he had only to look at her to know he had done the right thing . |
| 3 | His own father had died when he was four and he had only dim memories of him . |
| 4 | It was 6.30 am when he set off and he had only travelled five minutes from his home when the accident happened . |
| 5 | At the cinema , under cover of darkness , he put his arm around her tentatively , but was always ready for rejection , and he had only twice kissed her . |
| 6 | The Captain did n't even know his name since the fight had happened in another part of the city and he had only read about it in the papers . |
| 7 | He came from the gutter , the child of a whore , and he had only escaped the gallows by taking the King 's shilling and enlisting as a private in the 33rd Regiment of Foot . |
| 8 | Ford had been appointed to the battalion in the dying weeks of the last war , and he had only experienced a few skirmishes , yet now he must lead the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers against the Emperor 's field army , a realization that naturally occasioned Ford constant trepidation . |
| 9 | Lizzy had adored her father and he had only ever let her down . |
| 10 | She had him standing between her thighs , and he had only to position his rod at her welcoming portals to be inside her . |
| 11 | He was run off his legs the last time and he had only just been paid for the quarter . ’ |
| 12 | Some of the princes of Germany doubted the validity of the election on the grounds that Frederick had not been baptized at the time and he had only been elected , they said , out of fear for his father . |
| 13 | He had not eaten anything apart from the occasional so-called mash since the crops had died and he had only been allowed that because of a special emergency food supplies being sent in from other parts of the country . |