Example sentences of "only had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only had a bare glimpse of the softly lit room , her struggling figure still clasped firmly in his arms , as he continued through to the en suite bathroom . |
| 2 | It was as though previously we only had a limited knowledge of what children were capable of thinking , feeling and making , until encouraged to respond in a personal way to the real world around them . |
| 3 | ‘ I only had a tiny part in Coriolanus , ’ he said a few years later , ‘ but it was the most exciting experience I 've ever had in the theatre . ’ |
| 4 | You only had a tiny taste of one . |
| 5 | well we were considered to be fortunate that we did n't , we only had a small percentage that we had a problem with |
| 6 | ‘ In places like Tynedale they only had a small stock of housing anyway and that 's been reduced . |
| 7 | Well she only had a small party did n't she ? |
| 8 | But if you only had a small place it 'd be more economical to have labour than it would to buy paying out thousands of pounds for machines and |
| 9 | The second , however , seemed ideal , and was cheaper , though unfortunately it only had a small section of moat left , which had been suburbanised into a rock garden . |
| 10 | He declared contemptuously that their only well-developed mental quality was their memory , that they only had a small amount of intelligence , and that they were ‘ incapable of affection for man. , |
| 11 | And , since the banks were now firmly closed until the end of the holiday , and she only had a small amount of currency in her purse , she had no way of being able to buy any new , cooler dresses . |
| 12 | In Leeds , Newton Park Union Church not only had a seventy-foot tower but a clock which Leeds Corporation agreed to illuminate at night . |
| 13 | You only had a boiled egg and flakes . |
| 14 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 15 | It only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 16 | The old pre-war autobahn to Stuttgart only had a double carriageway and after fifty years of use was often under repair . |
| 17 | Apparently the mill only had a short working life as a corn mill , having been turned over to saw milling by the 1920s . |
| 18 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 19 | Mrs Carter only had a broken arm . |
| 20 | Fortune smiled on us for , although we only had a fleeting glimpse of the sun , the rain kept off until we boarded our coach for home at 6.15pm . |
| 21 | so it 's , you have to have a full passport , well we were gon na do it this year but Robert and Wendy only had a yearly passport |
| 22 | Looking at recurrences a little closer , of the eighteen patients , fifty percent only had a solitary recurrence in that first year , and no patient had more than four recurrences . |
| 23 | Not only had a 30-minute journey taken one hour , but according to him , we 'd been brought back to where we started ! |
| 24 | ‘ It was pouring with rain and she only had a thin dress on . ’ |
| 25 | Not only had a large section of the population been enfranchised , it was a notably different electorate from that which had existed previously . |
| 26 | He only had a little bit , but they put him away for three years . |
| 27 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |