Example sentences of "i had only " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had only seen a wall there before , and now my heart leapt when I saw , through the Bride and the Bachelors , through the Milky Way and the Chariot and the Grinder and the Sieves - someone moving . |
| 2 | ‘ It had been a quiet day and I had only caught a few small dace and then my rod thumped round . |
| 3 | And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together . |
| 4 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
| 5 | I had only three questions to ask him . |
| 6 | I had only one Black doll when I was little . |
| 7 | I had only visited the house — now a museum — once before . |
| 8 | Of 112 outfits , I had only the haziest recollection of red , pink and leopard-print . |
| 9 | ‘ And you , ’ I asked , hungry to question a culture I had only been able to observe , ‘ what do you consider yourself to be ? ’ |
| 10 | I had only observed that your father was an able under-butler and addressed him accordingly . |
| 11 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 12 | I had only just joined the school as my family had recently moved into the area . |
| 13 | I felt a momentary regret for all the waves I would never ride , when I had only just learned how . |
| 14 | If I interpreted it correctly — ‘ Nothing is definite , you must interpret the words ’ , Liese said — I had only to keep lying on my bed of North Shore nails for it to turn ultimately into a pillow of foam . |
| 15 | After a year , I had only the boots , but I knew that if somebody of importance would approve the idea then the rest would follow . |
| 16 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 17 | It had been held every year since I was five , and I had only missed it once , the year I was in Nigeria . |
| 18 | I tried to recall friends ' telephone numbers as an exercise , but astonishingly , though I had only been away from home for fifteen days , could only manage my own , my sister 's and my mother-in-law 's . |
| 19 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 20 | Then , just to get you really thinking , you answer a second crucial question : What would I do if I had only six months to live ? |
| 21 | Even to someone like myself , who has been envied in politics much more often for my physical stamina than for my brains , it was a severe pace , and I had only a fraction of the work and strain of Anthony . |
| 22 | The very fact that I had only properly discovered a foundation of happiness when separated from the world should have shown me that the tendency of the world was to flood and destroy such a thing . |
| 23 | Besides my mother 's whispered asides with their garnish of guilt , I had only brushed with two cancer sufferers in my life . |
| 24 | I had only told her , as truthfully as I could , whatever she asked me . |
| 25 | I had only been in the force five weeks . |
| 26 | I think I did see him die , with the look of utter peace I had only read of previously . |
| 27 | I was really deeply moved as I had only seen such a thing before in religious pictures . |
| 28 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 29 | I had only one session with him . |
| 30 | Myself , I had only wild hopes . |