Example sentences of "[pers pn] have only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I had only a day here before I received the Kha-Khan 's summons . ’ |
| 2 | Even to someone like myself , who has been envied in politics much more often for my physical stamina than for my brains , it was a severe pace , and I had only a fraction of the work and strain of Anthony . |
| 3 | But it was not Maria ; a whiteness , a flowing whiteness , a long coat or a dressing-gown — I had only a second 's sight , but I knew it was a woman and I knew it was not an old woman . |
| 4 | Thank you Chairman erm this is , this is er er obviously er a very important item , but I think that most of the information that it contains would already be familiar to members erm and bearing in mind that I , I 've only a moment or two ago gave a very long answer to Mr 's question when I , I could simply have said yes . |
| 5 | She was moved to offer , ‘ You 've only a basket of a few items , you might as well go in front of me . |
| 6 | I mean you , you even get interest just , if you 've only a bit in at least ten have n't ya ? |
| 7 | She left without a murmur although she had only a year and a half to go to complete her secondary education . |
| 8 | She had only a squatter 's title to the land , but after her death this was legally registered in her name by the local authority , and it was sold so that they could recover the money which she owed them . " |
| 9 | There 's always a bad moment , Howard knows , after the porter 's unlocked your room , switched everything on , drawn the curtains , and gone away again with a huge tip because you had only a folder of fresh banknotes in your pocket , when you sit down helplessly and think , well , here we are , this is it , I 've arrived . |
| 10 | ‘ Low battery ’ , for instance , is a warning that you have only a minute or so of battery-time left before you will have to stop the shoot to allow the battery to be changed or recharged . |
| 11 | The greater the number of lectures you must attend , the tighter and more automatic must be your techniques , or else you will find after a week or two that you have only a mass of undigested scribbles as the poor product of the many lectures you have attended . |
| 12 | To fight dirt costs more it you have only a gas stove on which to heat water . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've only a yard and a bit out the front . |
| 14 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 15 | We have only a water tanker this week , so no showers . |
| 16 | ‘ We were late starters in Italy ; we have only a minute presence , ’ Ribas says . |
| 17 | Now , we do n't know how long the interview went on , it 's quite likely we have only a snippet of the conversation . |
| 18 | A finder who sells goods without first disclosing that he has only a finder 's title is in breach of the condition in section 12 . |
| 19 | The Americans are world champions and half a second faster than the British best — but I can redress that balance just by telling Christie he has only a dog 's chance . |
| 20 | Having done so , it then regrows its tail , though it is not always as long as the original and internally it is quite different , for instead of bony vertebrae , it has only a tube of cartilage . |
| 21 | For though Henry I had left England in a very confused state because he had only a daughter to inherit his title , Henry II 's problem was quite the reverse . |
| 22 | He had only a daughter to succeed him and his son-in-law turned out to be a second Michael Chambre , who after Lath 's death ‘ let loose the reins to many disorderly courses , as cocking , raseing , drinking and lewdnesse ’ , so that he too finally lost all and sold Balderton to Robert Hayward , a local yeoman . |
| 23 | He had only a second to stare at a page before setting off various alarm spells , but that was time enough for one spell to leap from it and settle in his memory like a toad in a stone . |
| 24 | This knight was named Oleg Ban , and he was so poor that he had only a horse and two hounds , nine men to fight for him , nine maids , and a wooden fortress ; but he was the bravest knight in the whole land . |