Example sentences of "they have only [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd only sold the land , had n't they ? |
| 2 | The thing is Danny is that they said they 'd only bought the thing in July . |
| 3 | They 'd only taken a few steps when a man gave an appreciative wolf whistle . |
| 4 | They 'd only had the boat 18 months . |
| 5 | they they 've only had the taster because I sent home the erm a map of of D O S , D E S whatever I 'm supposed to call it now . |
| 6 | That 's what annoys me with erm these big company 's you know , opening on Sunday 's really , because er , you can only get the money , I mean they 've only got a certain amount |
| 7 | They 've only got a little stub though have n't they ? |
| 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 | They 've only got the little lights in that shop . |
| 10 | They nearly came to scratching each other because Janice says they 've only got an old banger . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 13 | Paige had rather liked her cousin 's husband , though they had only met a couple of times . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ICI claimed this was not harmful to residents in the area and they had only received a small number of complaints from people who had inhaled the gas . |
| 16 | Although breechloading weapons had been generally adopted , the small-bore rifle , the machine-gun , and the quick-firing fieldgun had not yet altered military thinking ; they had only increased the range at which fighting would take place . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , they believed they had only made a stab at it , From the start Wave and HHCL were determined to build the campaign around an organisation with a sound commercial and practical justification for funding such advertising ; someone with a vested interest in curbing consumer greed . |
| 18 | They had only noticed the snow . |
| 19 | They had only taken a step or two when they heard a rustle in the leaves , and a sound like someone huffing under a heavy load . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One can only feel for the Jesuits : when their Order was dissolved in 1777 , they had only enjoyed the finished church for two years . |
| 23 | Yet they have only touched the tip of the iceberg , especially with respect to old people in their own homes or private care . |
| 24 | Although they have only seen the creature far away , it is exactly like the hell-hound of the Baskerville story . |
| 25 | Although they have only spent a matter of weeks together , a strong spiritual bond exists between them . |