Example sentences of "[modal v] have only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is ironic that Kent , such a devoted follower of his master , should have only had the fifth edition , and not the ‘ most nearly perfect of all ’ on which to base his teaching . |
| 2 | All that work , well oh here we are , tape one and tape three so I must have only done t two tapes , not very impressive . |
| 3 | It must have only lasted a couple of minutes but believe me it felt like hours . |
| 4 | But Marc 's business in the stable must have only taken a minute because he was coming in through the great oak doors even before she reached the foot of the stairs . |
| 5 | You can also get the ones when , a lot of them , like some companies if they , depending how much business they 've got , some companies actually think that , they might have only got fifty pound a week , a hundred pound a week , as they have n't got young businesses , do you get me ? |
| 6 | Turning slightly , he stabbed the gun barrel with its fat , cylindrical silencer into the crack between Tessa 's thighs ; she could have only moved away by uncrossing her legs . |
| 7 | As they had no policy grounds for changing sides during the ballot , had they done so people could have only interpreted their action as a betrayal of tribal identity . |
| 8 | If they could have only known what 's going on in my head . |
| 9 | I sought my tutor in his arid rooms , Who told me , ‘ You 'd have only got a third . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After several public meetings to discuss plann-ing matters the bureaucracy were left confounded , much to the delight of the ratepayers who may have only attended for that reason ! |
| 12 | He said that while some of the pupils may have only experimented with drugs , there was always the worry that they would go on to try other , harder drugs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Brian deane may have only scored two goals for leeds but that s two more than Drunkin Fergusson has scored for Rangers . |
| 15 | Asking questions to which we know the answer is a useful exercise because it formalises in answer form what we may have only held vaguely before : " Why are we doing this ? " |
| 16 | ‘ We may have only won 1–0 , but it never looked as if we would lose . |
| 17 | His silence and inertia would have only made him more lifelike and I would , at once , have been treated as ‘ one of the girls ’ . |
| 18 | Well I i they had the mascot from the it would have only gone out on their home territory . |
| 19 | But they would have only given you a book for |
| 20 | But er Berty said it would have only lasted a couple of weeks , cos Alec wo n't talk . |
| 21 | Even the oil lamps , candles , or spills of the miners would have only accentuated the shadows , making crevices even darker and threatening , and eerily distorting every shape . |
| 22 | In 1979 a homebuyer would have only had a choice of repayment or the newly-popular endowment mortgages . |
| 23 | Nor are we told that , in 1981 , only eleven individuals in every thousand of the population were aged 85 or more , and that in the year 200 1 , their number will have only increased to seventeen per thousand . |
| 24 | The inherent exoticism of the place can have only added to its allure and , for those whose tastes tended in that direction , the soft purring caresses and total availability of the bar-girls must have seemed irresistible . |