Example sentences of "have [adv] only [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Katy has not only learned to stay away from her father but has also learned to play by herself . |
| 2 | More recent research has not only failed to support this view , but has also laid open the possibility that simplified input may not be particularly useful . |
| 3 | However , even at the same time as this controversy continues the discipline has not only come to recognize the influence of the self , but has urged that we use it as a scientific construction ( Okely 1975a ) . |
| 4 | He climbed to the upper level , and from the top of the stairs he could see a wide slice of moonlight telling him that he 'd not only forgotten to lock the door behind them , in his haste he 'd neglected even to close it ; he crossed the decking and closed it now , switching the key from the outside to the inside and turning it in the lock . |
| 5 | The only reference point to give us a sense of our height was the tiny boat on the beach beneath us , with the two fishermen , who had not only declined to follow us up the crater , but also expressed an urgent desire to avoid even setting foot on shore . |
| 6 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |
| 7 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 8 | The Minority Movement had not only failed to increase Communist support in the unions but was itself fading away . |
| 9 | Eighteen months later , in March 1944 , at a second Chinese-sponsored conference at Liuchow , Ho had not only managed to slip back under the nationalist umbrella of the Dong Minh Hoi but , as one of its representatives , was named as a member of a Provisional Government which was expecting to enter Vietnam in the wake of the ‘ liberating ’ Chinese armies . |
| 10 | We 've not only got to say to the government , that you 're not coping you 've got to say , if you 're a mother , a worker and a wife , you 've got to say to your husband , look , I 'm not coping . |
| 11 | That means you 've not only got to economise in manpower ; you 've got to bring new technology to bear on the problem . |
| 12 | If if if you have the people doing it who know what they 're doing you 've really only got to look at what they 're counting . |
| 13 | He said : ’ I reserve my position on that because I have not only got to find money for the welfare changes . |
| 14 | As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking . |
| 15 | He 's not only had to pick up technique in racing , he 's had to learn how to train — that 's been the secret , he says . |