Example sentences of "have be [verb] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas had been granted only a weekend pass . |
| 2 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 3 | It had been announced only a month ago that she was expecting her first child and would probably be leaving after the spring term . |
| 4 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 5 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 6 | As the south coast had been raided only a few years earlier , this action is understandable , and it also indicates a measure of political awareness among the peasant class . |
| 7 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 8 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 9 | My mother had been married only a few months , and had never previously been further abroad than Italy . |
| 10 | Voting had been suspended only a few hours after polling began , because of " premeditated acts of sabotage " , according to Ismaila Nimaga , Minister of Public Security and Territorial Administration . |
| 11 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 12 | The first raider had been downed only a short while earlier by Archie McKellar , who saw the attacker crash into the Lothians . |
| 13 | But after the Salzburg concert I had been offered only a kind of ‘ trial ’ , just one performance of someone else 's production . |