Example sentences of "only had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've only had a couple of abusive ones , and a couple of nasty telephone calls . ’ |
| 2 | In recent years , however , the Public Trustee has only had a small and declining proportion of the total work of trusteeship and executorship ( see p. 114 ) , and in 1972 a Committee of Enquiry recommended that no new work should be taken on , and that the office be wound up and merged with that of the Official Solicitor . |
| 3 | In 1979 a homebuyer would have only had a choice of repayment or the newly-popular endowment mortgages . |
| 4 | I 've only had a couple , I can drive . ’ |
| 5 | He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice . |
| 6 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 7 | The employment profile of this group parallels that of the known sector but emphasises the fact that most had never worked or had only had a ‘ work experience ’ employment rather than lost their job because of heroin use . |
| 8 | The introduction of ‘ Just In Time ’ management throughout RX and its supplier network has not only had a significant impact on company competitiveness but also accelerated the process of cultural change by exposing individual RX plants and workgroups to real and immediate market pressures within the company 's value chain . |
| 9 | The possession charge had been dropped because her daughter had only had a small amount on her . |
| 10 | We 'd only had a few dates . |
| 11 | Erm we 've only had a a glimpse really of probability . |
| 12 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 13 | It 's so hard to work on full glow when you 've only had a couple of hours kip . |
| 14 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 15 | Deemed delicious , he ate the lot and then had a cheese omelette and pronounced himself satisfied , having only had a nasty old British rail sandwich en route . |
| 16 | She thought : Gran is n't really ill , she 's only had a bad night . |
| 17 | Hitherto , the coalition had only had a one-seat majority in the Parliament as a whole and was actually in a minority in the lower house . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'm a Sunderland supporter who lives down here , I 've only had a day 's notice . |
| 20 | Eve , but listen , when you 've been out with me on a Monday I 've said to you you 've only had a cauliflower |
| 21 | and then he had he 'd only had a couple I think before he went home but he does n't drink much see . |
| 22 | Oh I 've only had a few . |
| 23 | He 's sound as a pound is n't he like , he 's only had a couple of pints . |
| 24 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 25 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |