Example sentences of "and have only [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Now twenty-four , she came to London originally from Gloucestershire , and has only just moved ‘ south of the river ’ to start a new job . |
2 | Miss Driver , 22 , has appeared in the television series Lovejoy , House of Eliott , Casualty and Kinsey , and has only just returned from Budapest — filming a Maigret adventure . |
3 | It exists largely as a product of the institutions of higher education ( Sarsby 1984 : 132 ) and has only recently begun to surface in policy and practice . |
4 | It results from the attempt to provide relief from psychiatric illnesses and has only recently begun to be recognised . |
5 | The aircraft had previously been flown in the USA as N190DH until a crash at Sellersburg , Indiana , on September 22 , 1987 , following which it was imported into the UK in 1989 and has only recently completed rebuild in the capable hands of Cliff Lovell , giving us a second airworthy DH.90 alongside Wessex Aviation & Transport 's G–AEDT . |
6 | The numbers of places in day nurseries ( the only state day-care provision ) declined steadily after the Second World War , and has only recently increased by a tiny amount . |
7 | The centre is family run and has only recently come onto the steam map . |
8 | ‘ Indeed , Gwynedd County Council originally opposed the restoration of the Ffestiniog , and has only recently shown any inclination to approve the full restoration of the Welsh Highland Railway . ’ |
9 | But , like so many of his stablemates , he struggled to find his form in the early part of this term and has only recently returned to his best . |
10 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
11 | The court was told that all three were now grown up , with the girls 27 and 31 , and had only just revealed their ordeal at the hands of their stepfather . |
12 | He was nineteen years of age and had only just qualified to receive the King 's shilling ; but now he was a couple of inches taller , shaved and had even come near to losing his virginity . |
13 | Laba , who was later to become one of our shipmates , had been a fruit farmer and had only recently taken up sailing on the advice of the local shaman after a string of close calls with pythons . |
14 | Giancarlo had never known passion , and had only occasionally felt the pull of lust . |
15 | I had read none of them , and had only vaguely heard of one , Edna O'Brien . |
16 | They went to give emergency help during the height of the oilspill disaster and have only just returned after setting up an animal hospital . |