Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] have only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I 've only got four . |
| 2 | I 'm afraid I 've only got a little red one ! |
| 3 | She turned from the counter and glanced through some boxes , then said , ‘ I 'm afraid we 've only got fifty of the large size , sir . |
| 4 | ‘ He was convinced you 'd only gone home to England to break the news to your family , then you were coming back to marry him . |
| 5 | They are products , that is , of the use of state power in civil society and as such they have only appeared in the period since Marx and Weber were writing . |
| 6 | Though no amount of apologising was going to excuse the fact that she had deliberately misled them , even given that she had only misled them from the best of motives — so that they should not worry . |
| 7 | I 've got only one two three I 've only got three main presents and four bits . |
| 8 | Good I 've only found out today about you |
| 9 | So that when they said , are you sure you 've only got x number of horses . |
| 10 | Make sure you have only used prime factors . |
| 11 | In the two years they 've been married they have only had one day together . |
| 12 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 13 | Locke does suggest , indeed , erm and erm the example that , the rather silly example that I just gave is meant to bring this out , erm that of course those who have only given tacit consent are not full members of that civil society . |
| 14 | Those who have only seen the northern stars may not realize how much more dramatic are those of the southern hemisphere . |
| 15 | Two , three , four , five I 've only got five thousand ! |
| 16 | Two I 've only got an ace , king . |
| 17 | And though she was certain she 'd only sent out a couple of hundred invitations , it felt as though there must be at least ten times as many of the little darlings present . |