Example sentences of "he have only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first scene , where he has only marginally greater status than McKendrick ( his university is more prestigious ) , but where McKendrick is a stranger to him , he does not risk threatening McKendrick 's negative face ( the term used by Brown and Levinson ( 1978 ) for the individual 's desire not to have one 's freedom impinged upon by others ) by encroaching on his conversational space through interrupting . |
| 2 | She is a glamorous 40-year-old , he has only just left school . |
| 3 | And the fact of George Carey 's criticism of massive pay rises to top bosses , and his sermon on the social responsibilities of wealth creation , is of concern to those bosses and wealth ‘ creators ’ because remarks that would have been unexceptional from other quarters came from the head of the established church — a case of the upstart vicar from Barking not yet fully appreciating the nature of his role within the establishment to which he has only recently secured entry . |
| 4 | Can it be true that , master of an essentially observational science , he has only ever made one observation in his life ( that is to say down the mines in Lancashire ) ? |
| 5 | Tom adds however that he has only ever seen a maximum of two wolf teeth grown in the upper jaw ; four wolf teeth are extremely rare . |
| 6 | He has only ever given me encouragement and support . ’ |
| 7 | Such a person may be believed when he says that he has only once tasted marijuana and did not inhale . |
| 8 | There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading . |
| 9 | He 'd only just got right from flu . |
| 10 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 11 | He 'd only just retired , and they 'd built a beautiful bungalow . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , I think he 'd only just realised himself . |
| 13 | Lucenzo looked up as if he 'd only just realised she 'd slipped away , and seemed taken aback when he saw her . |
| 14 | So my father did n't know what to do , because he 'd only just started on his own , so he was tight for money as well was n't he . |
| 15 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 16 | Ten minutes later , he was standing as a customer in another shop , the kind of shop that he 'd only previously ever visited in a raid . |
| 17 | He 'd been so disinterested in her progress during six years of primary school that he 'd only ever visited the school once . |
| 18 | He 'd only ever taken Johnnie camping before , and had no idea how she would take to it . |
| 19 | Even though objectively , he had all the strength on his side , and if he 'd only stubbornly insisted , the allies would have had to accept the fourteen points , because there was no way that they just did n't have any erm , any clout really when when finally settled in peace . |
| 20 | In 1916 he had only narrowly won re-election . |
| 21 | Nathan was at the foot , for he had only lately been promoted to take part in all of the firm 's business , having proved himself well able . |
| 22 | If anything , he had only just got wound up . |
| 23 | He concentrated the Sandinista troops along the Honduran frontier ; offered to end arms imports until after the election ; gave assurances of safe conduct to returning rebels ; and then said he was ready to reinstate the ceasefire he had only just abrogated . |
| 24 | He had only just arrived , had n't even booked in . |
| 25 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |
| 26 | He had only just recovered from another bout of serious illness and was still extremely weak . |
| 27 | He left Grace and Peggy behind with the intention of travelling for a while in Europe , but he had only just landed in South Africa when Grace realized that she was going to have another child . |
| 28 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 29 | He had only just gone over there . |
| 30 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |