Example sentences of "[pers pn] only have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only had a tiny part in Coriolanus , ’ he said a few years later , ‘ but it was the most exciting experience I 've ever had in the theatre . ’ |
| 2 | no , I only have a small slice |
| 3 | I only have a little goodness left inside . ’ |
| 4 | But if you only had a small place it 'd be more economical to have labour than it would to buy paying out thousands of pounds for machines and |
| 5 | You only had a tiny taste of one . |
| 6 | You only had a boiled egg and flakes . |
| 7 | Bearing this in mind and the fact that you only have a limited time to see it all , we 've put together these special tours . |
| 8 | All are welcome no matter if you only have a small plot . |
| 9 | Tackling a black run in a blizzard was a worry , but when you only have a long weekend you ca n't hang around for the sun to shine . |
| 10 | Maybe three lads to the drawings and maybe two lads to do the calculations , whereas it would be slightly in the bridge office or the works office because of the present resource availability , it tends to be that you only have a smaller number of people doing , doing those tasks . |
| 11 | And , since the banks were now firmly closed until the end of the holiday , and she only had a small amount of currency in her purse , she had no way of being able to buy any new , cooler dresses . |
| 12 | Well she only had a small party did n't she ? |
| 13 | She only had a bare glimpse of the softly lit room , her struggling figure still clasped firmly in his arms , as he continued through to the en suite bathroom . |
| 14 | ‘ It was pouring with rain and she only had a thin dress on . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , apparently she only has a short time to live ; David came back to be with her — he 's even living at Brooklands . ’ |
| 16 | well we were considered to be fortunate that we did n't , we only had a small percentage that we had a problem with |
| 17 | It was as though previously we only had a limited knowledge of what children were capable of thinking , feeling and making , until encouraged to respond in a personal way to the real world around them . |
| 18 | Fortune smiled on us for , although we only had a fleeting glimpse of the sun , the rain kept off until we boarded our coach for home at 6.15pm . |
| 19 | We only had a few paving slabs but a large area to cover , so decided to lay the slabs in islands . |
| 20 | We only have a limited number of fighter aircraft available . |
| 21 | ‘ We only have a short time , ’ Ell said . |
| 22 | ‘ In places like Tynedale they only had a small stock of housing anyway and that 's been reduced . |
| 23 | He declared contemptuously that their only well-developed mental quality was their memory , that they only had a small amount of intelligence , and that they were ‘ incapable of affection for man. , |
| 24 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 25 | But within this group he looks specifically at solid tumours and they only have a four year survival of twenty percent . |
| 26 | big like gun in like a staple thing it was , but it was a la , it was an extended one , fitted inside this rubber hose and then , clamp it and they only have a little bit of stomach left so they ca n't eat proper meals |
| 27 | They 've uncovered the remains of a first century village and graveyard … but they only have a short time to dig up the relics , before work continues on a pipeline straight through the site . |
| 28 | They 've uncovered the remains of a first century village and graveyard … but they only have a short time to dig up the relics , before work continues on a pipeline straight through the site . |
| 29 | The second , however , seemed ideal , and was cheaper , though unfortunately it only had a small section of moat left , which had been suburbanised into a rock garden . |
| 30 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |