Example sentences of "had [vb pp] for only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their eyes had met for only the briefest moment , but it had seemed like a lifetime . |
| 2 | It was after ten o'clock , and he would be quite right to disapprove , if it were n't for the fact that , in spite of appearances , she had slept for only a few hours last night . |
| 3 | Less than a fortnight later a panic call from Mrs Brodowitz revealed that Anita was engaged to a man she had known for only two days — ‘ a real Cockney , who appears to have a lot of money ’ . |
| 4 | In the shared community of sacrifice the party had undoubtedly widened its community of interest with the British people , and was able to speak for all of the people in 1917–18 as it had spoken for only an embattled half in 1913 . |
| 5 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 6 | The tribunal had heard evidence that names on nursing rostas included people who had never worked there , and two who had worked for only one day . |
| 7 | The boy , Gregory Kingsley , gave evidence that his biological mother , with whom he had lived for only seven months in the eight years prior to the case , had neglected and abandoned him . |
| 8 | He had survived for only three days at Craigtoun Maternity Hospital , St Andrews , and the parents maintained that his death resulted from damage done by forceps before the birth . |
| 9 | He had survived for only three days at Craigtoun Maternity Hospital , St Andrews , and the parents alleged negligence by medical staff , claiming that the baby 's death had resulted from damage done by forceps before birth . |
| 10 | Attributing the fall to the breakup of the Soviet Union , the report revealed that the dissolving Soviet Union had accounted for only US$3,930 million worth of arms exports in 1991 . |