Example sentences of "have only [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing my luck I 'll only be able to afford a weekend break in Bognor Regis , especially as my measly wage has only gone up by fourpence in the last two years . |
| 2 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 3 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 4 | Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles . |
| 5 | Well I i they had the mascot from the it would have only gone out on their home territory . |
| 6 | In fact , she won the history prize so many times that last term she was given it to keep , having only missed out in the second-year . |
| 7 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
| 8 | " I 've only popped down for a cup of tea . " |
| 9 | I 've only popped by for five minutes . |
| 10 | They 've only got up to these ones , we do n't know which numbers they are . |
| 11 | I 've only read up to the bit where he 's standing near the hooker . |
| 12 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 13 | In the first week of the forty-day share sale period , the unions only invested £871,000 , and two weeks before the closing date the total had only crept up to £927,500 . |
| 14 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 15 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 16 | Yet the substance had only gone on to the Jockey Club 's list of prohibited substances a mere ten months before Aliysa failed her dope test . |
| 17 | In the second incident , involving the credit card , he had only gone along for the ride , and had not used the card himself , said Mr Harper . |
| 18 | ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees . |
| 19 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 20 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 21 | Clarac had only to step out of line once and he would be out , family connections or no . |
| 22 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 23 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 24 | Maurice had only to look around at Casterton to see the ideal place for his school . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the past , so-called biodegradable plastics have been viewed as fraudulent by environmentalists , as they have only broken down into smaller pieces . |
| 27 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |
| 28 | Although Coda has offered AS/400 software since the box was launched in 1988 , Turner says that sales have only taken off over the past two years , and it is now the group 's fastest-growing market . |
| 29 | Yes , erm very , very quickly , erm I notice that the swimming pool and river bathing visits had more than doubled , I just wondered what the cause of that was , and whether in fact it was mainly related to the swimming pools or to the river bathing bit erm places , and the second one is , regarding the noise , I notice that it has shot up , the number of visits to seven twenty one , but in fact , the prosecution 's only gone up to one , and I wondered if Mr Fenn could tell us whether in fact because of the higher profile that had been given to this erm activity , due to its possible cut , whether in fact more people are aware of it and there were more |
| 30 | He 's only gone back for |