Example sentences of "it had only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er it was known by archaeologists and the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments had done a survey , but it had only done a very brief survey , and they said this is part of something left of a medieval building here . |
| 2 | It is a great misfortune for my book to come out with it ( though I am glad it was written before it ) : if it had only appeared with The Present and the Past . |
| 3 | The ministry said it had only begun to take meat samples . |
| 4 | The small pain which had been inflicted upon it had only served somehow to make it stronger . |
| 5 | And then it had only ended after he had decided to go back to his wife . |
| 6 | But London Ambulance Service categorically denied that it had plans to cut off phone lines , saying that it had only authorised one disconnection at Park Royal Ambulance Station , West London , because crews had locked themselves in . |
| 7 | Was the Council willing to embark on a major new undertaking in a field in which it had only limited experience , none of it in the validation of teacher education itself ? |
| 8 | The Council felt that it had only achieved a limited success in achieving the aims determined above . |
| 9 | It had only sounded that way to his western ears — because the words had been Chinese ! |
| 10 | He had tried to give her an injection but it had only made her more hysterical . |
| 11 | It had only taken a glance to recognise the ship 's chandler , the site corroborated by the smell of tarred rope ; the same with Mick 's Bar and Johnson 's store . |
| 12 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 13 | Instead , it had only taken away six months of his life — at a critical point that just might have foreclosed on his promotion hopes . |
| 14 | It had only taken a matter of yards for her to acknowledge that her sandals made abysmal hiking boots . |
| 15 | Wise Speke 's performance showed that although stockbroking commissions had increased by £400,000 in the period it had only managed to break even . |
| 16 | It had only meant one more day of privacy . |
| 17 | It had only woken up again when it had been brought into the Store , near electricity . |
| 18 | The State Department demurred : it had only offered information , not advice . |
| 19 | On the contrary , it had only resulted from a number of complex and unforeseeable political developments at court . |
| 20 | Unhappily , it had only lasted a few short weeks , but all their friends still shuddered at the memory of their truly spectacular fights ! |