Example sentences of "[verb] only [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although closely linked with the marathon racing side , he has only done a couple of races and his own paddling has mostly been recreational . |
| 2 | Potato brown rot has only affected a few tonnes on one farm so far … but experts are keeping their eyes on it . |
| 3 | So in some areas the Commission has only issued a recommendation or communication , which are merely persuasive and have no legal effect , such as in the area of social protection , child care , minimum income and persons living in frontier regions . |
| 4 | In recent years , however , the Public Trustee has only had a small and declining proportion of the total work of trusteeship and executorship ( see p. 114 ) , and in 1972 a Committee of Enquiry recommended that no new work should be taken on , and that the office be wound up and merged with that of the Official Solicitor . |
| 5 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 6 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 7 | But one must recognize that whatever system one puts in has only got a limited life before it becomes irrelevant , and if the payment is for achievement it must do just that . |
| 8 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 9 | This is not necessarily as great as the increase in the liabilities of the target company related to the breach of warranty , particularly if the purchaser has only paid a nominal price for the shares in the first place . |
| 10 | Granted structures of the Prisoners ' Dilemma type , cooperative behaviour can be secured only granted a certain level of assurance , and the need of norms ( in particular of sanctioned norms ) to produce that assurance shows that the assurance can not be adequately delivered by genetically based signals . |
| 11 | We 'd only gone a short distance from the trees when suddenly we were hit by a blinding flash . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | He 'd only played a couple of games for 'em by then . |
| 14 | erm , wo n't you start again because you 'd only got a couple of minutes into it , had n't you ? |
| 15 | No it were Monday when in here cos I was oh I were , Gavin were wanting some toast with jam on and I 'd only got a little bit like that , I says oh you 'll have to wait while your Aunty Margaret brings some more tomorrow . |
| 16 | They 'd only taken a few steps when a man gave an appreciative wolf whistle . |
| 17 | ‘ Mrs Funnell thought it better not to call him because you 'd only taken a small dose . |
| 18 | He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice . |
| 19 | We 'd only had a few dates . |
| 20 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 21 | It must have only lasted a couple of minutes but believe me it felt like hours . |
| 22 | But er Berty said it would have only lasted a couple of weeks , cos Alec wo n't talk . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In 1979 a homebuyer would have only had a choice of repayment or the newly-popular endowment mortgages . |
| 25 | I sought my tutor in his arid rooms , Who told me , ‘ You 'd have only got a third . ’ |
| 26 | Obviously having only played a couple of gigs , including Radio City ( New York and appearing on The Grammy Awards , their inexperience showed . |
| 27 | Having only done a few short walks before in true Water & Ventilation style he decided to ‘ test the water ’ first by walking the Ridgeway in Wiltshire , 85 miles and five days later he completed it . |
| 28 | That morning they went to a travel agent in the Unter den Linden to buy tickets , having only booked a single journey from London . |
| 29 | Deemed delicious , he ate the lot and then had a cheese omelette and pronounced himself satisfied , having only had a nasty old British rail sandwich en route . |
| 30 | and then he had he 'd only had a couple I think before he went home but he does n't drink much see . |