Example sentences of "have only [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 3 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 4 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 5 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 6 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
| 7 | The planet had only been recontacted a century earlier . |
| 8 | Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time . |
| 9 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 10 | She sent him a memo — the usual form of royal communication — but he replied negatively , arguing that it was n't possible as she had only been doing the job for a short time . |
| 11 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 12 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 13 | Lamb 's QC had told the appeal he felt harshly treated when Surrey , whose bowlers had actually been caught ball-tampering three times , had only been handed a £1,000 suspended fine . |
| 14 | He had only been commissioned a week . |
| 15 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 16 | Now what I would like Mr Alistaire and the rest of the Scottish M P's is to bring up in parliament a Scotland will have to be revalued every five years as done in the past where England have only been revalued every seventeen years , which I think is most unfair . |
| 17 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
| 18 | Yeah , she 's only been driving a year , two years . |