Example sentences of "she have only [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | A woman on the dole in a Sunderland sink estate tells me she has only voluntarily paid rent for two weeks in three years . |
2 | ‘ Down To Earth ’ will prove that she has not only mastered here medium , but that she has only just begun . |
3 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
4 | She has only recently returned to full duties , and was treated for shock and minor cuts . |
5 | How ridiculous to feel such a sense of possession , of oneness with a man she 'd only just met . |
6 | And she 'd only just gone to the end of the road to phone Ken was working away . |
7 | ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’ |
8 | He 'd spoken so quietly , his face against the top of her head , that she 'd only just heard his words . |
9 | I ca n't remember who it was now , but they said have you been , have you seen this , have you done that , which she said no she has n't , I think she 'd only just arrived some , some time last week did n't she ? |
10 | And she 'd only just got up ? |
11 | She had no doubt her entry had been heard , that the soft sound she had only just noticed was of someone ducking out of sight . |
12 | She had only just seen that Beuno had come and was sitting in the garden amongst the wild Welsh poppies and the camomile daisies and the pheasant feathers . |
13 | She must be dreaming , but surely she had only just gone to sleep . |
14 | Hilda felt he was a stranger , someone she had only just met , a feeling she sometimes had when he met up with friends he 'd known before they got married . |
15 | She appeared taken aback , as if she had only just realised that the pair of them were not alone . |
16 | Then she cried for Adam , cried because she was suddenly frightened he was dead , cried for the loss of something she had only just found . |
17 | He did not think there would be any point in Sara travelling to Wellingham that evening , especially as she had only just got back from abroad . |
18 | She had only just arrived , after all . |
19 | She had only just finished when he called her to join him and enjoy the view of Gibraltar from the sea . |
20 | It seemed she had only just drifted off when she was woken by a sharp rap on the door and Nathan 's impatient voice announcing , ‘ Breakfast in five minutes ! ’ |
21 | She had to riffle through the pages of her notebook to find the number , which she had only rarely used . |
22 | She had only recently arrived in Dublin , a servant girl in the house of Captain and Mrs Lewis . |
23 | Her voice sounded numb , as if she had only now abandoned the hope that her employer was more misjudged than misguided . |
24 | ‘ Whom should I say is calling ? ’ the man said in an accent she had only ever heard in the movies . |
25 | She had only ever visited his office once before — as an awestruck teenager in the company of her stepfather — but she remembered precisely where it was . |
26 | She had only ever felt this physical response in Harry 's presence . |
27 | She had only ever loved one man — and tomorrow the barrier that stood between them would finally be removed , when Anna married another . |
28 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
29 | His house was full of things she had only ever seen in old films with Rock Hudson and Doris Day : a vacuum cleaner , which did the work of a suckerdrone ; a gramophone , which played unwieldy round black musidiscs with added scratch and hiss as part of the music ; an electric kettle that took ages , maybe two minutes , to heat up enough water for a cup of recaff , and did n't do anything about the impurities and pollutants . |
30 | Again , she had only ever seen pictures of rooms like this in magazines , in the homes of film stars : enormous chambers furnished as this one was with deep wing chairs and buttoned leather chesterfields , warmed by a huge log fire blazing in the grate , and with every wall hung with various and ornately framed oil paintings . |