Example sentences of "who had only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I had one of my rare good ideas : why not try ringing up those breeders who had only advertised at the beginning of the breeding season , about six months before ? |
| 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 | The highest nobility were only very few in numbers , so that when we speak of their hold upon military commands we must , consciously or not , include those who had inherited relatively low noble rank or who had only risen that far through their own efforts . |
| 4 | His win/loss playing record for the year up to 23/3/92 was 20/3 , bettered only by one player , Perez Roldan , who had only played in one tournament , in Casablanca . |
| 5 | On the other hand Leeds handed out a whopping defeat on a team who had only lost 1 of their first 9 and whose manager had just won manager of the month for September . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the brawl continued continued for several hours , because the police , who had only limited manpower , confined their role to merely stopping the trouble from spreading to other areas . |
| 8 | Sandison , who had only had three or four glasses of wine , began to feel light-headed . |
| 9 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 10 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 11 | The twins , who had only left the Pony Club two years ago , pushed off to see their old chums . |
| 12 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 13 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 14 | Some young men , who had only experienced farming and had had little opportunity to further their education or develop wider skills , showed some bitterness and frustration . |