Example sentences of "[verb] i [modal v] only [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q I 'd really love some oomph in my hair and my hairdresser says I 'll only get it with a perm . |
| 2 | I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry . |
| 3 | Magill was n't the first time I 've given my Little All for my job , but that ca n't mean I can only get it right when … |
| 4 | She went on : ‘ I felt I 'd only believe I was pregnant when I could see it . |
| 5 | I thought I 'll only give her half because I know she 'll get in a mess . |
| 6 | When I first went , I thought I 'd only get them for a couple of weeks at the most . |
| 7 | If I go I will only take you with me and this bed is already warm . |
| 8 | But even playing it is a real worry ; I think I 'd only do it if I had my band playing live , the way I do it now . |
| 9 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |