Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] only [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I thanked him , he saluted , and the two of them walked on My guard said that I was crazy ; I could have run into terrible trouble , but I had been lucky and now I had only to choose a beautiful new bicycle . |
| 3 | ‘ Mrs Funnell thought it better not to call him because you 'd only taken a small dose . |
| 4 | We 'd only gone a short distance from the trees when suddenly we were hit by a blinding flash . |
| 5 | ICI claimed this was not harmful to residents in the area and they had only received a small number of complaints from people who had inhaled the gas . |
| 6 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 7 | The Council felt that it had only achieved a limited success in achieving the aims determined above . |
| 8 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |