Example sentences of "have only [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outcome was that at the end of June 1960 a Cuban delegation in Moscow was warmly received by Khrushchev himself , and was told by the Soviet premier that ’ the Soviet Union has only to press a button in any part of the Soviet Union for rockets from that country to fall on any other part of the planet ’ . |
| 2 | Although closely linked with the marathon racing side , he has only done a couple of races and his own paddling has mostly been recreational . |
| 3 | Some of the features of alcoholism in its terminal phase are so well known that a cartoonist has only to draw a couple of lines for everyone to know that the subject is a " drunk " . |
| 4 | So in some areas the Commission has only issued a recommendation or communication , which are merely persuasive and have no legal effect , such as in the area of social protection , child care , minimum income and persons living in frontier regions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I am not going out of my mind , she thought , and if , at the moment , the outside world does not recognise me for what I am , my sister knows she has only to speak a word here and there , to take a decision , and who will listen to me ? |
| 8 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 9 | ‘ You like it so much you agreed to sail across the Mediterranean , with a man you 'd only met a couple of times , regardless of the fact that you did n't know one end of a boat from the other . ’ |
| 10 | He 'd only played a couple of games for 'em by then . |
| 11 | erm , wo n't you start again because you 'd only got a couple of minutes into it , had n't you ? |
| 12 | if you were buried alive , I mean , Uncle Nat when he used , when he was in , in Uncle Nat when he was out in the war , he used to come back home and he 'd only to hear a siren and he 'd throw himself on the floor |
| 13 | He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice . |
| 14 | It must have only lasted a couple of minutes but believe me it felt like hours . |
| 15 | But er Berty said it would have only lasted a couple of weeks , cos Alec wo n't talk . |
| 16 | But Marc 's business in the stable must have only taken a minute because he was coming in through the great oak doors even before she reached the foot of the stairs . |
| 17 | In 1979 a homebuyer would have only had a choice of repayment or the newly-popular endowment mortgages . |
| 18 | Obviously having only played a couple of gigs , including Radio City ( New York and appearing on The Grammy Awards , their inexperience showed . |
| 19 | ‘ No , I 've only made a guess , ’ he returned coolly . |
| 20 | In my first week , I lost nearly a stone but since then I 've only lost a couple of pounds a week . |
| 21 | And if we do n't go we 've only lost a pound ticket . |
| 22 | I 've only given a hint of what you 'll get as a Hilton Club member . |
| 23 | I 'm a Sunderland supporter who lives down here , I 've only had a day 's notice . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've only had a couple of abusive ones , and a couple of nasty telephone calls . ’ |
| 25 | I 've only had a couple , I can drive . ’ |
| 26 | It 's so hard to work on full glow when you 've only had a couple of hours kip . |
| 27 | Eve , but listen , when you 've been out with me on a Monday I 've said to you you 've only had a cauliflower |
| 28 | Whatever they like bottom of the River Trent if you like but it would be very going off the subject and I 've only got a minute or two to spare but what someone pointed out to me that terrible monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal subway and every time I pass I fume inwardly . |
| 29 | Brain of Britain — I 'm struggling with todays Sun crossword — I know it 's embarrassing but I 've only got a degree in Chemistry and we all know that chemistry students are amongst other things the partners of defenders with no brains , i.e Weatherall and Newsome . |
| 30 | So oh I 've only got a year . |