Example sentences of "had only " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , landscape painting had only a gradual success as a theme in European painting . |
| 2 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 3 | as if all the work of the past four months had only been a dream , the cutting and the drilling , the painting , the moulding of the lead wire . |
| 4 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 5 | Some time later found he had only one shoe on . |
| 6 | I had only seen a wall there before , and now my heart leapt when I saw , through the Bride and the Bachelors , through the Milky Way and the Chariot and the Grinder and the Sieves - someone moving . |
| 7 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 8 | Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old . |
| 9 | And besides , they had only just met . |
| 10 | But she had only ever pulled the stops out for people she loved and respected . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For Jay absence had only ever made the heart grow fonder . |
| 13 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 14 | One of the ironies of the 1980s is that while the East Coast main line started to take delivery of its second-generation 125mph equipment , the maximum speed of West Coast trains had only moved from 100 to 110mph . |
| 15 | The East Grinstead scheme had only been authorised because of the need to replace asbestos-infected elderly diesel multiple units and by demonstrating that no new rolling stock would be required . |
| 16 | In the early 1960s , wheat beers had only 1 or 2 per ent of the Bavarian market , or at most 2 or 3 , reckons Erdinger 's second generation owner , Werner Brombach . |
| 17 | But we had only one serviceable skyhook . |
| 18 | A typical example is the 1978 Tremadoc Guidebook comment after the first ascent of Fingerlicker in 1975 , where alone in that guide it was pointed out that the route had only been climbed after two ‘ Yo-Yo 's ’ ( according to the 1975 definition of a Yo-Yo ) . |
| 19 | Ahmed Deedat told thousands of Muslims who filled the Albert Hall in central London that if they had only shown the non-Muslim majority that Mr Rushdie had grievously insulted the Queen , Margaret Thatcher and all white women in The Satanic Verses , then the author would have been condemned by all of society and the book banned . |
| 20 | He had only won one match prior to the international , in the Regal Scottish Masters , but is well aware of his own capabilities . |
| 21 | When first formed it had only 12 members ; it now has 30,000 . |
| 22 | But John Bullock , senior partner at Deloitte UK , admitted that Touche Ross had only been informed of his decision not to merge with them ‘ a few days ago ’ . |
| 23 | Miss Golani had only one piece to play — as one of three irreconcilable characters in Michael Colgrass 's Strangers . |
| 24 | Where there were eight northern Grand Slammers , England 's first , 41-strong squad this season had only three — Dewi Morris , Wade Dooley and Bob Kimmins — from northern clubs . |
| 25 | He said he had only offered to use the truncheon as a sex aid but desisted when she shook her head . |
| 26 | Like Gronberg , she had only one bogey and her two remaining birdies came at the 10th and 18th holes . |
| 27 | The Spaniard had only one bogey — at the 13th — and was nine under par when the match reached its premature conclusion . |
| 28 | For example , emotional problems are often presented as justification for a person 's drunkenness , especially if they are female , and on one occasion a youth who had been involved in an accident but who had only just passed his driving test was let off with a caution by a policewoman in sympathy for his inexperience . |
| 29 | It proved immensely effective at communicating party campaign themes to the electorate , but in the short span of an election campaign it had only a small influence on the public 's issue-agenda . |
| 30 | Whereas the national monthly output of iron-ore had sunk from 45.87 million pudy in 1913 to 0.98 by September 1922 , and cast-iron from 21.43 to 0.94 , flax yarn had only sunk from 0.236 to 0.104 . |