Example sentences of "have only occasionally [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This idea of metempsychosis , or transmigration of souls , has only occasionally appeared in the West , in particular in the school of Pythagoras , which may have been subject to Eastern influences , since he was roughly contemporaneous with Buddha — and also with Zarathustra . |
| 2 | People also think I 'm bound to have accidents , but I 've only occasionally burnt or cut myself , and surely we all do that . ’ |
| 3 | Giancarlo had never known passion , and had only occasionally felt the pull of lust . |
| 4 | Pieces of Eight marked a new self-confident Kenneth Williams who had only occasionally revealed himself until then . |
| 5 | The pretence that statutes merely declared existing law was dropped ; they occupied areas of national life which before they had only occasionally entered ; they became far more precisely drafted and the judges interpreted them a good deal less freely ; they were , by the reign of Elizabeth , the outcome of a definite and recognized procedure . |