Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have n't got much change I 've only got another pound . |
| 2 | The ‘ Oh ! ’ was caused by a flash of insight ; it seemed like an answer to the prayer I had not prayed , the prayer I had only thought . |
| 3 | It 'll be playing patience I 've only seen him doing " . |
| 4 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |
| 5 | They had fought back , and it had felt the sting of their fight which had only served to make its hunger and hideous needs greater . |
| 6 | No wonder I 've only got a four ! |
| 7 | well I 've done all me work I 've only got to get dad 's tea , |
| 8 | Now this P H test I 've only had it a few seconds and already look what it 's done to the paper . |
| 9 | I think I did see him die , with the look of utter peace I had only read of previously . |
| 10 | He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice . |
| 11 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
| 12 | ‘ Since I married my husband I 've only met two men , that 's in seven years , that I 've even been tempted with , ’ said the voice above her . |
| 13 | On the other hand Leeds handed out a whopping defeat on a team who had only lost 1 of their first 9 and whose manager had just won manager of the month for September . |
| 14 | This way where good job we 've only got as minute . |
| 15 | In the first place he had only approached Rufus because Rufus had a car . |
| 16 | Wise Speke 's performance showed that although stockbroking commissions had increased by £400,000 in the period it had only managed to break even . |
| 17 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 18 | And er there there was a major who 'd only got one eye . |
| 19 | However , this assumption is not shared by sociologists of education who have only begun to study teachers and teachers ' work in recent years . |
| 20 | She 's got her work and I 've got mine and at night we 've only got time to learn our lines before we hit bed . ’ |
| 21 | But todsay Cranog Jones told the court he 'd only gone into the garage to de-tune her car after they 'd had an argument . |
| 22 | He had n't been thinking anything of the sort and last night he had only suggested he could settle her business for her with a phone call to the manager , whom he knew well , because he wanted to take her out today instead of waiting outside hotels for her . |
| 23 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 24 | You lost a fair amount of weight to begin with but in the last week you have only dropped 1 lb ( 0.4 kg ) and you are disappointed with progress . |
| 25 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 26 | And the science paper she 's only got the the kind of practice one , it 's a very basic one . |
| 27 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 28 | Due to limitations of space I 've only shown these using thirds , but do n't forget to apply the same ideas to sixths as well , and in in both ascending and descending directions . |
| 29 | There 's a cat in your garden , there 's a pussy cat in your garden oh dear I 'll have to go without the swim I 've only got an hour and a half |
| 30 | During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu . |