Example sentences of "who have only [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 2 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 3 | But it is also noticeable that Mackenzie wrote a much less dramatized description of his grandmother , ‘ a weird old lady ’ with penetrating eyes and a low voice ’ , who had only fallen a little less severely than her ex-husband , living as landlady in a poor alley with ‘ an old servant companion ’ in a house furnished with antiques . |
| 4 | The twins , who had only left the Pony Club two years ago , pushed off to see their old chums . |
| 5 | Those who have only seen the northern stars may not realize how much more dramatic are those of the southern hemisphere . |
| 6 | Clients who have only had a mortgage for a year or two , may find they have to pay three months ' penalty interest in any event . |
| 7 | In the afternoon we all packed — and had a laff at Paul Weller who 's only got a crap Adidas bag and Peter Hooton who keeps his stuff in a stupid black plimsoll bag — and got the buzz . |