Example sentences of "only [pers pn] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only I did n't belong there , that was the whole trouble . |
| 2 | Five frilly nightdresses straight from mail-order , their labels still attached — I 'd 've nicked a couple only I did n't know what disease they might be carrying . |
| 3 | ‘ If only I did n't feel so tired , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I had to pay to have them work as fast as they did , only I did n't want my friend 's grave marked with just a cross in the sand for any longer than it had to be . |
| 5 | Only I did n't , dare n't mention it to the doctors you know . |
| 6 | ‘ I done that once to the undertaker , only I did n't stop so soon , I squeezed him a bit harder … ’ |
| 7 | Only I did n't dare hope … ’ |
| 8 | You know nothing of the world in which you have come to live , and I should have warned you about Rose , only I did not know that you were going out with her until after you had gone , and then , of course , it was too late . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd have brought you some before only I did n't want to interrupt you . ’ |
| 10 | Only I did n't stay long . |
| 11 | I won er two only I did n't get it . |
| 12 | ‘ The original sleeping beauty , ’ said John , ‘ only she did n't have a prince to wake her . ’ |
| 13 | Only she did n't smell half so sweet . |
| 14 | Yes , of course she must be , only she did n't care , she looked down on food : there was no fun in it . |
| 15 | It was probably hunger , and she supposed she ought to eat something , only she did n't feel very hungry . |
| 16 | Only she did n't , but without Leo 's heavy arm round her shoulders she thought she might have run out again . |
| 17 | It was just a casual phrase that was tossed back and forth between acquaintances , and meant nothing — only she did n't want it to mean nothing . |
| 18 | Only she did n't need to think about it , not really , not about the lovemaking itself at any rate — it was indelibly printed on her mind in glorious Technicolor . |
| 19 | She wanted desperately to hold him , make things right , only she did n't have the courage . |
| 20 | He 'd also said Leo was a tycoon , only she did n't quite know how to ask him about that . |
| 21 | Anger roared inside her and she opened her mouth to tell him in no uncertain terms where to go , only she did n't have a chance to utter even one heated word , as he bent and covered her parted lips with his , kissing her with a thoroughness that left her shaken . |
| 22 | She should have used them before , only she did n't care to . |
| 23 | you done everything exactly the same , only you did n't have the time to do it in . |
| 24 | If only we did . ’ |
| 25 | Only we did n't practise speaking it you see . |
| 26 | only we did n't really eat last night properly at all did we ? |
| 27 | Only they did n't know how to treat a nurse . |
| 28 | The British , it was agreed by all , on this occasion , were men of justice despite their many other faults , only they did have a habit of making tidy things untidy by over-insistence on bureaucratic process . |
| 29 | His sister was his mother , only he did not know it until he was thirty-eight years old . |
| 30 | If only he did not love Madeleine so totally , so hopelessly , he told himself as he drove down Oxford Street towards Marble Arch . |