Example sentences of "[subord] they have only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 2 | Although they have only seen the creature far away , it is exactly like the hell-hound of the Baskerville story . |
| 3 | Although they have only spent a matter of weeks together , a strong spiritual bond exists between them . |
| 4 | If we consider starting the endowment here but presumably gon na run twenty-five years in fact you 're gon na finish in year twenty-three when they borrowed the money , are n't they , so they 've only borrowed the money for twenty-three years . |
| 5 | Miss why if they 've only got one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Cos they 've only got paving , crazy paving . |
| 8 | But I think the actual situation in some of these countries is that erm the loggers especially say like in Sarouac , where the government 's only granted three year licences to logging companies , they 're just going in there , cutting everything down because they 've only got a short space of time , and they 're trying to maximise , obviously , their profit . |
| 9 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 10 | This is because they have only won three matches in a World Cup proper . |
| 11 | Her difficulty in identifying Mungo was hardly surprising , since they had only met once before , when she had come to stay . |
| 12 | Indeed did n't some of those unfortunate Micks you buggers kept framing get done for handling gelignite when they 'd only played cards or struck matches or something ? ’ |
| 13 | Paige had rather liked her cousin 's husband , though they had only met a couple of times . |
| 14 | In the past , so-called biodegradable plastics have been viewed as fraudulent by environmentalists , as they have only broken down into smaller pieces . |
| 15 | ‘ It will be more like a home game for us than France as they have only sold about 20,000 tickets , ’ he said . |