Example sentences of "i have only " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's as if I 'd only seen him at twilight ; and now suddenly I see him at dawn . |
| 32 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 33 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 34 | ‘ I 'd only met her once before that evening , but I feel we 'll be friends for life . ’ |
| 35 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 36 | as if I 'd only been half awake before so no wonder I could n't do anything . ’ |
| 37 | I did n't want him thinking I 'd only fired in self-defence . |
| 38 | ‘ I 'd only been at Rangers five minutes when he offered me the use of his villa in Florida . |
| 39 | I was a gunner , I 'd only been in er |
| 40 | Christ , I 'd only been in the hospital for about ten minutes before I snuffed it ! ’ |
| 41 | ‘ If I 'd only thought … |
| 42 | I 'd only experienced them through other people and it was something I could n't bear to think about , really , because my mother had died of it and all I could remember was a series of silences and around the silence was terror to me . |
| 43 | I 'd only met Mrs Tuckett twice , once when she drove Billy down to university at the start of a term and once when she turned up to see him get his degree . |
| 44 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 45 | As he turned , the leg was straight up in the air , a position I 'd only ever seen Springsteen get into voluntarily . |
| 46 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 47 | I thought I 'd only got the flu ! |
| 48 | Well on the Wittering job he said he wanted somebody there you know er myself as manager to oversee the job but on the Sheffield Wednesday job , incidentally I 'd I got the contract from them both , the Sheffield Wednesday job was done I 'd only ever had to visit it once and that was at my request not at anybody else 's and either way both erm the Wittering and the Sheffield Wednesday er there have been other drivers going . |
| 49 | ‘ I 'd only intended to fix myself a light snack and get an early night . |
| 50 | ‘ In my defence , I 'd only recently admitted to myself that I was in love with you . |
| 51 | Mrs Ellerton said : ‘ I 'd only flicked through the book and that one mistake jumped off the page at me . |
| 52 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 53 | Inspector , but anyhow , now when I went on the detective staff I 'd only been on the force just over three years |
| 54 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 55 | No it were Monday when in here cos I was oh I were , Gavin were wanting some toast with jam on and I 'd only got a little bit like that , I says oh you 'll have to wait while your Aunty Margaret brings some more tomorrow . |
| 56 | I 'd only had it round about ten minutes and I thought |
| 57 | first time I ever one , was old Freddie and I 'd , I 'd only been to depot . |
| 58 | I 'd only just bought the Granada . |
| 59 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 60 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |