Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | How to make sense of Lucy and this dizzying all-consuming pain ; how to find a meaning for her life which had only acquired meaning with Lucy as its radiant centre . |
| 32 | ‘ You like it so much you agreed to sail across the Mediterranean , with a man you 'd only met a couple of times , regardless of the fact that you did n't know one end of a boat from the other . ’ |
| 33 | She had always been the sensible , down-to-earth twin , yet here she was , going away with a man she had only known for two days . |
| 34 | now if you 're a football fan you 'll have been crossing the days out on the calendar for a couple of months now … the supporters scarf will have been washed and ironed and sitting ready for weeks … and by my calculation you 've only got one hundred and sixteen hours left to the big kick off … so here 's a taster |
| 35 | Sir we 've only had this for I think for three minutes before the start of the erm of of this erm session , I 'm just wondering if we could have ten minutes to read it ? |
| 36 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
| 37 | In the past he had only got decent-size rewards for the arrest and conviction of armed robbers and known murderers , not for information leading to a mere interview . |
| 38 | Employment I 've only had one job , that 's sad . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Since leaving school I 've only played golf . |
| 41 | any way I 've only got enough for about two |
| 42 | To date I have only managed to work on Objectives 1c , 1d , and 2 , but I think that even this work is significant . |
| 43 | I ai n't checked them , I 've been on holiday I 've only come back today that 's been drawn has it ? |
| 44 | This involves adiabatic elimination of the polarisation ( F 00 ) , and replacing x by the " intensity " I , equal to x2 , yielding the system which has only damped oscillatory solutions ( relaxation oscillations ) . |
| 45 | They meet Wimbledon this weekend who 've only lost once at home this season . |
| 46 | Principal environmental officer , Bernard Cribbs : ‘ We used to get lots complaints about dog packs but this year we have only had about two which shows how effective the scheme has been . ’ |
| 47 | In my bag I 've only got … |
| 48 | Chancellor Kenneth Clarke will have to tread more warily if he is n't to destabilize the housing market which has only touched bottom . |
| 49 | ‘ Have n't you lost loads of weight ! ’ they would say , though in fact she had only lost 6 pounds . |
| 50 | She 'd never liked them much ; in fact she had only kept them up so long because Mary Connon long ago , almost on her first visit to the house , had been openly patronizing about them . |
| 51 | ‘ Do you mean to say , ’ she ventured , disliking the silence , ‘ that in your view we 've only stuck it out together all these years because of the children ? |
| 52 | United will start favourites to reach Wembley , but Middlesbrough will gain encouragement from the fact they have only drawn eight of their last ten games . |
| 53 | He looked into Gorelli 's face , the face he 'd never seen , the face he 'd only heard , and so many years ago . |
| 54 | In fact it has only begun . |