Example sentences of "he have only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 'd only said that to get him out of Mrs Wright 's house . |
| 32 | He 'd only met Bogie and I — over in the pub , the Dirty Duck , for about half an hour when he insisted on taking me round to Shakespeare 's birthplace . |
| 33 | Mr said he did n't have the heart to tell them how , you might think it 's good value but he did n't when he 'd only paid fifteen pounds fifty a ticket . |
| 34 | He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice . |
| 35 | And I think he 'd only had one . |
| 36 | If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different . |
| 37 | He might not love Didi , but he intended to marry her as soon as he had the ring , and he 'd only persuaded her to return to New York to facilitate matters and save a possible clash … |
| 38 | He 'd only got to be told by Charlie that he 'd be leaving the High Street by the bridge and walking along the local river . ’ |
| 39 | One week he he broke the record , he pulled f He brought brought forty tubs down and then the following week he got killed and he 'd only got seven on . |
| 40 | And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it . |
| 41 | He 'd only got pages 1 to 8 , and the corresponding ones at the back . |
| 42 | So if he 'd only got it recently , it would n't have been found . |
| 43 | Publicity for homelessness was part of the business and I know one lad said he 'd only got two pounds of sponsorship and er I thought well you 've you 've done rather well to get two quid . |
| 44 | Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | He 'd been adjusting the driving mirror and he 'd only taken his eyes off the road for a moment . |
| 47 | He said he 'd only meant to frighten the victim , not kill him . |
| 48 | The trap had been beautifully set , and he 'd only avoided it because thanks to Bartocci 's machinations he 'd already fallen into another one . |
| 49 | I found out he 'd fired his caddie John Moorhouse and then he 'd tried a German lad , but he 'd only lasted the practice round ! |
| 50 | After all , he had only lost one toe . |
| 51 | However , up to the time of his partnership agreement with Scott , he had only completed approximately ten buildings , and was perhaps better known as a writer and administrator . |
| 52 | Dr. Yeats had replied that he had only followed the practice in Edinburgh hospitals , where cases of venereal disease were isolated . ) |
| 53 | Robert Cecil evidently rebuffed Sir Arthur Gorges when the latter sent him a present in 1603 , for Gorges wrote in a hurt tone that he had only followed ‘ the common custom and usual compliment of the time ’ . |
| 54 | He reflected gloomily on the price of his ambition , because he had gone out on a limb to persuade a mistrustful and increasingly hostile Kenamun to consent to the operation he had mounted , and then he had only achieved it by linking Surere to the serial killings . |
| 55 | He had only ridden the horse for four months , since she was bought by Sue Welch from Paul Schockemohle . |
| 56 | I was surprised at the violence of his remorse — after all , he had only hit me — and I remember thinking , quite irrelevantly , how much more true to life the old dramatists were than modern ones , making their characters utter loud cries and throw themselves about the stage in moments of anguish , rather than deliver their parts poker-faced , through stiff lips . |
| 57 | Dulé passed them and remembered how he had only felt wonder , not this stab of pleasure , when first he saw them sleeping on the ground near Ariel 's cabin that long year ago . |
| 58 | He had only seen them in books and wondered how something as light and puffy as steam could pull such heavy carriages . |
| 59 | He had only seen my eyes . |
| 60 | In many ways she was her father 's daughter , and she knew he had only loved one woman — her mother . |